Yzerman said Trottier was his favorite player, so the comparison seems on. But it's more like Yzerman turned into Trottier, not that he was similar from the start. Yzerman strated out as a pure offensive phenom.
The "before Gretzky" statement seems over the top, but he actually held a lot of "fastest/youngest to reach X points" records that were only broken by Gretzky and/or Bossy (the latter with a lot of help from Trottier).
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