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Originally Posted by bluejays
I have to laugh at Gretzky's competition back in the day. I know he's the greatest of all time and certainly his edgework and passing were undoubtedly great but goaltending was in it's infancy at best, equipment was smaller, defenceman were smoking in intermissions, and the sport was treated as hobby by ownership and it cascaded down. Maybe this isn't the thread for this debate but today's players skills have gone up dramatically.
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Wow, watching that really puts it into perspective, it's like he's playing NHL '22 on rookie with all the CPU sliders set to minimum.
To be dominant in today's NHL is very different from being dominant in the era of Gretzky.