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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Yeah, that might be fair. Stuff like this is why I try as hard as possible to avoid direct player-to-player comparisons. They're always wrong in some way and people will nitpick them to death. Honestly can't recall what Bure was like in the corners, probably because for him it never mattered.
Probably biased too, Pavel Bure might be my favourite non-Flames player ever. A true take-you-out-of-your-seat with excitement hockey star. One of if not the best goal scorers of any generation. Guy once scored 59 goals for the Panthers while the next highest player had 14.. a 45 goal gap. Insanity.
Just didn't have the knees to sustain.
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He had the skating style where his ankles would bend inward and his strides were crescent shaped. It's how he was so fast in the first few strides.
A lot of what you said relates to the Oilers. Mcdavids going to lead his team by a wide margin with similar goals to Bure (stylewise), catch the opposition flat footed in the neutral zone, quick lateral move to odd man rush/breakaway. Very similar get you out of your seat high speed goals, the one good player on a god awful team.