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Originally Posted by Jetfire
He may well have been the most pure skilled player we've ever had. Huselius had the hands, Tanguay had the passing vision yet a lot of our good players still only had individual traits that collectively made Johnny so special. Nilsson is waaay before my time, but I've heard/seen a little bit of his highlights and people talking about what he could do.
So basically Johnny had:
-Even better hands than Huselius and I'd say Nilsson too
-Tanguay laser eyes passing vision
-Fleury's incredible elusiveness, but even better skating
And then I think he had a great shot too, it wasn't a heavy shot but he had a really whippy, quick and pretty accurate wrister. His compete was way higher than a guy like Nilsson too from what I've always heard.
Hockey IQ comparables, I can't quite draw any, he might have the highest hockey IQ we've seen as well.
Basically the only thing he lacked were the physical tools that made a guy like Iginla incredible, but Johnny worked so well with the natural gifts he had.
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Fleury was a better skater than Johnny. He was in fastest skater comps at the ASG (never a real contender but up there). And he was better one on one and on a breakaway. His flaw was his discipline on and off the ice, obviously.
Nilsson had every tool you want except physicality. His flaw was his compete level.