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Originally Posted by sa226
This whole McDavid thing sometimes keeps me awake at night. The fact that this is as close as this franchise could be to having a generational talent in 10 years or more, and we likely won't get him. I don't even like to think about it.
Yet when you look at Pittsburgh, with arguably 2 generational talents. They only have 1 cup.
For every Pittsburgh, there is a Boston, Carolina, Chicago, even Colorado.
It would be supremely awesome to get McDavid. But I don't think its necessary.
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Crosby is the closest thing to a generational talent this generation, but I don't know if he is that head and shoulders above everyone else. The gap between him and other players isn't nearly as big as it was when looking at "generational" players like Gretzky and Orr. I am not even sure if I would put him in Lemieux territory in terms of where he is relative to his peers.
It is of course partly because the whole upper tier of talent is more competitive now than it used to be. The whole notion of a "generational" talent is becoming obsolete.