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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
But that's ignoring that his contemporary Lemieux was able to put up 161 points in 70 games, a staggering 190 point pace, against Roy, Hasek and Brodeur in 1996. Those guys aren't MacDonald and Dubnyk but they were half decent. 
Oh well, I've become a broken record at this point but no one seems to address Lemieux' 1996 season when they bring up the terrible goalies, terrible competition argument. |
Those are great names, yeah, but the entire game has also evolved so much, you can't go coast to coast anymore, very rarely and score a goal, or blast a slapshot from the blueline with no screen whatsoever to score a goal (Gretzky did that a lot, his shot was out of this world, but still goaltenders today would pick those like cherries)
Why I'm leaning towards Crosby (I'm pretty young too, yes!) is because he's more of a 'complete' package, both ways. Everyone knows Kurri was the defense responsible player in Gretzky´s line who did all the defensive work so Gretzky could do his magic to the other end.