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Old 07-25-2018, 10:24 AM   #95
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Originally Posted by Steve Bozek View Post
Agree - those numbers should have put him there.
For about 2 years, there was a general belief he was the best all-around hockey player in the world. There are a number of players in that top 100 list that have never reached that level of elite. The NHL has been in existence for 100 years, so that should have placed him in the top 50. That he wasn’t even placed in the top 100 just shows the stupidity of the voters.
The stupidity of the system, really. By dramatically over-representing the first half-century of the NHL's history - a period that largely saw fewer than 100 active NHL players at any given time - the league screwed itself on the back half. Add in the poor inclusion of too many members of the modern Blackhawks, and they just compounded their mistake.
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