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Originally Posted by AcGold
Imo it's not that they were more talented but that the talent gap between the elite and the average was way more. Now the training techniques that set guys like Lemieux and Gretzky apart are common place.
Take Gaudreau and Crosby thirty years back they'd be putting up 200 point seasons.
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I don't know about Gretzky but Lemieux used to smoke and certainly wasn't in peak shape. Seems to me Gretzky wasn't exactly a gym rat either.