[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by looooob

until Perreault got injured, Perreault-Gretzky-Lafleur was quite the thing in 1981


(* and I totally understand the general argument that with each generation athletes are doing more incredible things, but if we accept that we can only situate a team or player in the generation in which they played the 76 team was still about as good as it gets star power wise - albeit they may not have had a Gretzky/Lemieux/Crosby type forward- although they did have Lafleur, Esposito, Clarke, Hull, Dionne, Perreault (and many other HOFers) but most importantly Orr in his one true best on best tourney (along with his supporting cast of Potvin, Robinson, Savard and Lapointe on the blueline)

Yes, they were fantastic!