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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Some thoughts after shovelling my way through the whole thread:
What do you mean, ‘again’? The Flames have never had an elite first-line centre. The closest they ever had was Kent Nilsson, and he only played that way for one year. Even in '89, the elite centres in the league were Gretzky, Lemieux, Yzerman, Messier, with a case to be made for Nicholls, Savard, and Hawerchuk. What they did have was two legitimate (but not top-tier) #1s in Gilmour and Nieuwendyk.
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Gilmour and Nieuwendyk are in the HHOF. That qualifies as elite, full stop. They were in their prime here too.
You just compared them to four of the greatest who have ever played the game.