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Originally Posted by pylon
If you took Crosby, with his exact same training, equipment, and skills back to the early 80' it would be a blood bath. He would probably score 300 goals in a single season against the pathetic goalies and pylon defensemen of that era.
It would look like a top rank Midget AAA player, playing against peewees. It is an impossible comparison to make.
I think it would be more interesting, to see what Gretzky could do now. Would he even crack the first line?
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Well if we're going to do that... if you took Gretzky with the same training, equipment, skills and bla bla bla of today... he'd win the scoring race by a hundred points this season.
Reading through this I gotta wonder how many of you youngsters actually saw hockey in the 80's. He was torching slouches like Ray Bourque, Rod Langway, Rob Ramage, and Larry Robinson every night.
It's not like he was having a heyday against six Brian Glynn's (or Shane O'Briens) every night.
Despite what Don Cherry has to say, everybody was trying to kill him every night and every team had at least one version of Dave Semenko.
Then he had to score on Patrick Roy, Martin Brodeur, Dominik Hasek, Mike Vernon, Ron Hextall...