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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
When Crosby came in to the league, it was a long time since a "generational talent" was hyped up as much as him. Probably since Lindros. There seemed to be a lot of people rooting against him.
McDavid on the other hand has been given the golden boy treatment since he entered the league. And it seems like now, every few years there is a new "generational talent".
IMO, McDavid is definitely the best young player to enter the league since Crosby, but the separation in talent between guys like McDavid and the rest of the top players in the league, is a lot smaller than it was when guys like Gretzky and Lemieux were tearing up the league. It doesn't mean as much to be a generational talent. There are probably 20 players in the league right now that would have been "generational talents" 20 or 30 years ago, back when the term meant something.
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For a so called generational player who plays a 1 way game, albeit a pretty damn good one, with the ice time he gets, he should be 20 points up in the scoring race. he is a fantastic player but not generational as he is only a 1 way player.