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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I irrationally see red when I hear "best player in the world". It's overhype - any player who's the best in the NHL is the best in the world because no league comes close. But no one was proclaiming Sid or Jarome or Jagr or Mario or even Gretzky were "best in the world" because it just sounds so stupid.
Not to mention you can make a good case against McDavid based on his poor 200 foot game.
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To be fair, that's only because people would take literally any excuse to lay that superlative on any other player. First it was Ovechkin, then Bergeron, then Toews, then Giroux (???), then Toews again... then Bergeron again. It's insane how much disrespect Crosby got in his heyday, actually. One of my cousins tried to convince me that Malkin was better than Crosby once lol.