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Originally Posted by GioforPM
There's a couple posters on hfOil that dispute that, because Gretzky played against weaker goalies.
Of course, they ignore that Gretzky was miles ahead of other players until Mario came along. How far ahead is McDavid versus other players?
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That is a good point. Gretzky was demonstrably better than anyone else at that time. A key feature was he was innovative, doing things that had never been tried before and that set him even further apart from his peers.
We won’t see that with McDavid, and it isn’t fair for them to expect it from him. But they do.
As good as McDavid is today, he’d be much better anywhere else in the league. This is because he would have been given the room and the support to develop rather than given task of becoming the messiah.