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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I agree with this.
To be generational, a player should not only be the best player of his era, but there should be a gap between him and everyone else.
Gretzky, Orr, Lemeiux and people like that.
For me, Crosby is borderline - definitely the best for many years, but not a very big gap between him and others.
McDavid is not generational. If he can continue to up his game and not only become the best player in the league, but create some separation, and do it for several years. THEN he would be generational.
Right now, he isn't even the best player yet. And we don't even know if he is going to be significantly better than Matthews (who arguably had a better rookie season than McDavid did)
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I wouldn't really count Coffey as a generational player or even close to it, that generation of hockey featured weak goaltending no teams had any kind of depth at all and good players feasted on that.
Gretz was absolutely generation and in my mind in the argument with Orr and Howe.
Lemieux was also generational, but I wouldn't put anyone else in that stratosphere.