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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
The race wasn't even close for the scoring titles. It wasn't like Gretzky was narrowly beating the second best player by a couple points, he was slaughtering some of the best players in the world at the time by over 100 points a season. The one year Crosby won the Art Ross he did it by 6 points over Thornton...
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and Crosby was 19....out scoring a veteran in his prime by 6 pts.
I'm not dubbing Crosby as the greatest EVER, I'm saying that you cant quickly dismiss his accomplishments 1/3 of the way though his career. He still has 8-10 years of "Prime" hockey and is already near 700pts.