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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
I'm honestly a Crosby fan, but it must seem like I just really hate the guy but....
1996 Lemieux leads the league in scoring. 161 points in 70 games, good for 189 points in 82. The next best is the person I feel Crosby is closest to in terms "player of his generation" in Jagr with 145, after that everyone else has 120 or under. That includes Sakic, Francis, Forsberg, Selanne, Lindros, Fedorov, Mogilny, Fleury, Oates, Sundin, Hull, Yzerman, etc. etc. I mean is that competition exceedingly weaker than Crosby's? I think it's a great disservice to those players to suggest it. Yet Lemeiux slaughtered them in the scoring race, after missing a season with Hodgkin's a couple years earlier.
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Because it's so difficult to compare eras, I tend to put the hard numbers aside and instead look at how much better a player is in their given era than their peers. I realize this is subjective and very opinion based though.
Gretzky and Orr compared to their peers were way more ahead than Crosby is to his peers (IMO). Crosby is to his peers, roughly just as ahead as Lemieux was to his, although I agree that could be a little too generous.