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Originally Posted by strombad
Well then you're wrong.
Orr was arguably the best player to have ever played, a lot of people have no problem with that statement. Gretzky was around when the NHL was changing, in a decade where North America changed considerably. It's the era of marketing and merchandising, and Gretzky was around for it.
He meant a lot to the NHL, so did Orr, but Orr was the best player of all time.
Even Mario was near as proficient as Gretzky was offensively, so you can't just rest on his stats and say "oh best ever no doubt!". You can say he's better than Crosby, of course, but if you can't admit that Orr and Mario were right there with him, in a near interchangeable mix of 3, then you're being silly.
If there's one thing I have noticed lately, it's that guys come jerking their gerk about how young guys don't know, and they go and make equally naive statements.
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No you're wrong.
See how easy that is to do?
As for the third part...who said aything of the sort? Quit making crap up.
You can say Orr was the greatest of all time all you like, I guarentee i can find way more hockey people that would say Gretzky was.
And sure...Orr and Mario AND Howe are all in the mix for best ever, but there can only be one who tops it all and that belongs to 99.
My opinion only....along with millions of others of course.