Ogopogo, Rattray, Bletchley, and Cup 2007 Sens Rule!, and others:
If anything is "Pejorative Slured", it is the trite, drunken debate taking place in this thread.
First off, I respect efforts to essentially compare apples to oranges, though all of us realize it's imperfect, for a lot of obvious reasons. Still, it's an interesting effort to boil individual performances down and compare them in a meaningful way.
However, I believe most hockey fans would understand that, for a variety of reasons, hockey today is much more sophisticated and advanced than the NHL hockey of old, and if someone had a "teleporter", as you discussed, there's no question that a player would have great difficulty playing in the league today.
However, Bobby Orr is not a player that serves this argument as well as selecting a player from the early 1900's. But for argument's sake, let's go ahead and use Bobby Orr as an example.
Keep in mind that while Orr played in an era with its own superstars, and dominated the league, one could question the quality of the depth of talent in the NHL during that time, for a number of reasons. During Orr's tenure, the league had 12-18 teams, and had yet to completely mine Europe of its skilled players. Players did not train the way they do today. Nutrition, supplements (and performance enhancers - sad but true, but another debate)and other factors have all had big impacts on players' abilities. More scientific coaching methodologies and technology (studying game tape), sophisiticated statistical analysis, etc has allowed teams to better match up against star players than ever before, and has significantly impacted improvements to goaltending. Additionally, one could argue that NHL salaries at that time did not equally provide the financial incentive for a depth player to make the sacrifices to pursue a pro hockey career, further diminishing the depth of talent at that time. All of these things contribute to the improvement to the depth of talent in the NHL.
Cup 2007, I hate to pick on you, but you said:
you think Orr would have "problems making the NHL" as Pothier signs a 4 years $10 million deal"
We're talking about a career-projected number 6/7 defenseman, playing on the Washington capitals. If you were to compare Pothier to a 6/7 defenseman on a non-playoff team in the 1970's, I think you'd see a noteworthy improvement of depth in the NHL. I doubt you'd find many 6 foot, 200 pound players with the athleticism and fitness of Pothier filling such a role. As such, a player like Bobby Orr, would have a much more difficult time becoming a dominant player in the NHL. The size, strength, and speed of his opposition, the improved skill of depth players, as well as more prepared team systems, and far superior goaltending, would really put a cramp in Bobby Orr's style.