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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Such an amazing achievement.
The sad thing is that with all the legends I grew up watching (Sakic, Selanne, Roy, Brodeur, Lidstrom, etc) the ones who are left (Jagr, Iginla, Thornton et al) will all soon be retired. Who's the next older''legend'' to take over? Iginla maybe? Thornton if he plays until he's 40? Who's the next player to be that true legend that will break some of the all-time records? I can think of Ovechkin and Crosby maybe if he stays healthy.
It's so neat to watch some of these guys break records that have stood for decades. But other then Ovechkin maybe breaking some of the goal records, I fear we'll be in a record-breaking ''drought'' once lots of these older guys retire, as I don't really see any of the new wave of superstars coming anywhere close to what these guys did.
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2 years from now it's very possible that Jagr, Iginla, Datsyuk, Elias, Chara, Luongo, Doan and possibly Thornton, Sedin, Hossa and Zetterberg) will all have hung them up.
It does feel like there is a bit of a gap of 'legends' from 1981-1984.
Kronwall (1981)
Lundqvist, Gaborik (1982)
Keith, Spezza (1983)
Nash, Staal (1984)
Lundqvist and maybe Keith are the only one's that really feel like they belong with the later 70's names above. The rest feel more like "Doan's" (not that its anything to be ashamed of) and even then there's only a few of them.
It really picks up again in 85 with guys like Ovechkin, Getzlaf, Perry, Bergeron, Burns, Carter. '86 only really has Malkin, but there seems to be plenty of future 'legends' after that.