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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
you're right. It is silly when you compare a player who has had an extra 50 years of hockey evolution over an era.
if you want to make it fair, plunk Hasek or Ovi into 1975, have have them having grown up in the same conditions, having them living the same way and training the same way and with getting the same medical care.
Gap isn't as far off as you'd think. Imagine Bobby Orr if he even had the sports medicine of today, and didn't have to play on #### knees his whole pro career?
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Exactly my point. If, if, if.
The fact of the matter is that Dryden, Plante, Sawchuk, etc would get absolutely lit up if you plunk them (unaltered) in today's NHL. Yes, maybe if they had today's training and medical care they would be great, but the fact is they didn't and don't. Therefore you can't include them in the greatest of all time conversation, despite being the greatest of their generation.
Roy, Hasek and Brodeur are the the three arguable greatest of ALL time.