At this moment, I'd probably take McDavid and a bag of pucks for Johnny and Mony, but it's fairly close. I really, really, really hope that 3 years from now I'm wrong, but I'm just not sure our guys are going to reach the heights of Toews/Kane, Crosby/Malkin, Sakic/Forsberg, Yzerman/Fedorov.
I think the most probable optimistic outlook is Thornton/Marleau (or sadly, the Sedins) level - in the conversation for a decade, but never able to get all the way over the hump. Hopefully we can at least make the SCF, because then anything can happen. It's also very possible that they will prove to be a touch below that level - ie. Weight/Tkachuk.
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