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Originally Posted by Madrox
That's a silly statement. I get what you're going for in terms of importance to team, but Marchand will never be talked about in the same breath as Crosby, and that's what we're talking about. McDavid is one of the top NHL players without much help, and I don't want to see what he could do with some actual backup. In the mid to late 80s, we had a bunch of players that any team in the league would have loved to have, but no one would have taken any of them over Gretzky. That doesn't make them worse, and if the 89 Flames played 10 series against any Oilers team, I'd expect them to at least draw even, and if put to it I would bet on them, but it would still be a silly thing to say that they'd rather have any of those players over Gretzky.
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I didn't say that people would go out of their way to compare them, but I do think that there is a battle to be had.
You don't compare Marchand to McDavid because there's no link. Not many people get too hyped up for the Boston vs Edmonton game.
But a teams two stars in a rivalry are usually linked, and I think that Tkachuk will be important enough to make those conversations interesting.