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Originally Posted by Rick M.
Over time the categories have changed At one point ‘star’ was the top, but soon a new category of ‘superstar’ was added at the top end to be succeeded eventually by ‘generational’. Inflation isn’t only a problem at the gas station; hockey hype is similar.
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I think maybe that Sydney Crosby was the first "generational" player heading into the 2005 Draft. The term was used then to distinguish him as the most gifted player since Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemiux; the sort of player that comes around only once in a generation.
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