He’ll be an automatic first vote Hall of Famer, but it still bothers me that he was cheated out of a couple of honours he deserved: the Hart, and the recent “all time top 100”. How could he not be in the top 100, when he was generally thought to be the best all-around player in the world for a couple of years? The NHL was only 100 years old when the selection was made, so simple arithmetic says that if he was the best for two of those years, that should have got him into the top 100. There are others on that list that never would have been considered the best in the world in any of their seasons in the league.
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