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Originally Posted by Macho0978
Mcdavid, Crosby, Lemeuix, Gretzky, Orr, Bedard IMO are generational.
MacKinnon is every bit as good as McDavid but wasn't projected as generational. Barkov has a cup, Eichel has a cup, Tkachuk has a cup, Kucherov was on my list too as a guy that gets it done every year in the playoffs. We don't need Mcdavid to have elite players.
The way some of our depth guys played over the years in the playoffs, if we had a true elite 1st line we could have won. Backlund's line most years is very good in the playoffs, young Sam Bennett was as well. Gaudreau was not. He's not elite, just very good all-star caliber, just not in with the guys I mentioned and can't be the go-to guy on a cup winning team.
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Not picking on you, because you're right in many ways, but I'm not sure if Bedard was seen as a generational talent fully. There was certainly a lot of hype and murmurs of him being such, though the jury is fully out on him. He looks good, but we'll see what he can do with his stature over time. He seems to have been hit hard this past year with his style, so who knows what adjustments he will make to cope.