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Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
This is why I keep voting for MacInnis. He was a top 5 D-man for all time.
The same cannot be said for anyone else who played a meaningful amount of time for the organization.
The fact that he still the organization's all time assist leader, as a defenseman, shows that he was an elite player on the team for quite a while.
He was the most instrumental player on the cup winning team, and he's the biggest reason the Flames were elite in the 80s (other than Fletcher).
Finally, MacInnis has 102 playoff points for the Flames. That's the highest by a huge margin - it's nearly as many as Fleury and Iginla combined.
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You're the second poster to say this. Do you really believe this to be true?
IMO he's not even top 10, or close. I can buy top 25.
Orr, Harvey, Lidstrom, Bourque, Potvin, Robinson - he is nowhere these guys. Stevens, Niedermayer, Park etc. same thing.
Chopper was a great player, I'm not selling him short. But top 5 in the history of the game?