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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
IMO if you took Crosby in a time machine and plunked him into the middle of the 1980's, he'd easily put up the numbers Gretz and Mario did. He'd skate circles around the plethora of slow, lumbering, pylon defensemen, and forwards who never heard of the term "back check", and destroy the stand up goalies with the rolled up news papers for pads.
It'd be a slaughter.
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If you think Crosby is injury prone now, put him in a time machine back to 1982, with what the standard operating procedures were for defence at the time and it would be a slaughter for someone as well.