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Originally Posted by PlayfulGenius
I'm 100% with you on this ... I'm goin to write something that will take the heat off you though...
... When I watch Gaudreau play, I see Gretzky in his style.. There, I said it and I ain't takin' it back!!
By the way, I'm NOT expecting a grandiose career out of Gaudreau... so no need for all the warnings about expectations.
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The way I see it, the problem with making a comparison to Gretzky and then expecting that player's career to follow the same trajectory has less to do with the comparison, than it does to how much better every other player in the league is now, compared to how good every NHL player was in the era in which Gretzky played. A Gretzky in his prime in today's NHL could never hope to match the performance of 1980s Gretzky. And that is because the average NHL player in 2014 is probably more comparable in his ability to hockey stars from the old days.