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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
You can't compare players from different eras but you can compare them to their peers. Crosby has been great but he's only lead the league in scoring a few times and he's always been close to other top players in most stats every season.
Gretzky obliterated the competition.
For instance in 2006/7 Crosby score 120 points. Joe Thornton was next with 114 and Lecavalier third at 108.
In 1985/6 Gretzky score 215 points. Mario was second with 141 and Coffee was third with 138.
Gretzky was head and shoulders above his peers while Crosby was much closer to his peers.
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In fairness to Mario, that was only his sophomore year. On a crappy team. Mike Bullard was the next highest scorer. And Moe Mantha was third! Gretzky had some decent teamates around him.
Luckily, one of them was Steve Smith.
