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Originally Posted by FanIn80
I agree with most of what you said... But I don't know that Tkachuk is better than Neely. I think that would be an interesting conversation, and I'm not sure which side I'd land on, but Cam Neely was one of the best goal scorers of all time.
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Neely will always be an interesting one to talk about. Him only playing the number of games that he was able to play hurts him in these sorts of conversations. He also played (for a good portion of his career) in a high scoring era (and then also some in the dead puck era).
I think Tkachuk may end up being the better overall player/have the better career - but I really only saw the last few years of Neely’s career whenever the Bruins happened to be on Hockey Night in Canada, so my exposure to Neely was pretty limited.