Ive said this before on this board but it bears repeating. When Mario played, you were on the edge of your seat on every shift. You knew greatness could happen at any time. You expected something on every shift.
Gretzky was able to play all those games since anyone breathing on him equaled a power play.
Ain’t that the truth. And then Marty McSorley took care of business and made sure Gretzky had room to operate the whole game.
Just my opinion:
Yes, but no one was allowed to even look twice at Gretzky let alone touch him or Marty McSorley would come over and pummel you. If only Mario had that kind of protection during his prime.
A lot of people, not just Pittsburgh people, have Crosby as a top 5 all time. Maybe that’s a bit of recency bias, but it goes to show you how much separation lemieux has to another top 5 player. We’ve never seen anything like him. I remember a thread here, man it had to be over ten years ago, where people discussed greatest athlete in Pittsburgh history. Some Steelers were mentioned, and Pirates like Clemente and Stargell were mentioned. But there is no player we’ve intimately seen in this city as great as Mario. No steeler or Pirate is in the same universe. Not even a guy like Arnold Palmer.
Its Mario at 1 and Armon Gilliam at 1A and everyone else is a distant second. no argument here.
He's one of the best goal scorers in NHL history....but even with 800 goals he still trails Sid in all time total points. He's one dimensional, even if that dimension is other worldly.
It speaks to the all around nature of a player, being as adept at making plays for others as scoring goals for yourself
Because then it essentially becomes a 4 on 3 power play which has a higher likelihood of giving up a PP goal than 5 on 4 with Ovid.
That’s just what I was going to say. He was much more active in previous years. Now he just hangs around waiting for the one timer
Because Crosby is a winner who makes everyone better -
Casual observers don't have a voice.
You are right, there is no correlation to Pitt football. Kind of like posting stuff about the World Cup, the PIAA State Championships, the Penguins, the Naval Academy firing their Head Coach, Christmas Songs that we missed, Jaromir Jagr, A 12 year old Texas RB, the Army-Navy game, etc...
I heard Madden say yesterday that if he breaks the goal scoring record, how can you not put him in your top 5. And he has a point. And now that Ovey has trademarked the phrase the “GR8 Chase”, he will be getting all the free marketing and pub that comes with it.
So let me get this straight, your first post in 5 months is this? God, there are some strange people on the internet...
I believe Ovi will be the all time goal scorer when he is done. That is an incredible achievement. But I can't put him in the same sentence with Crosby. Maybe it's bias. Not only is Crosby a great scorer, playmaker, and 200 ft player, he has accomplished more while dealing with injuries and physical play. Crosby fights through interference and illegal tactics like nobody else has had to. You could argue Mario and Jagr did too, but they were bigger bodies.
Yeah can't argue this.
Hot dogs per game- undefeated champions !How soon we forget…
how soon we forget the true greats…
That's a real solid top 14. As you said, after the top 6, order really doesn't matter.
My Eric Lindros rookie card value that I spent 100’s on in 1991 says otherwise.
You know what? I’m going to concede and say that Bonds might be one worthy of at least a discussion.
And being the most feared batter in history
