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Ahead of Fedorov, though? A Hart, two Selkes, a key player on two Cups, had just won silver in Nagano, and a major cog in the famous Russian Five unit... to me, even at the time, Leclair was not on Fedorov's level as a hockey player.
I don't want to say that LeClair was, but if Sergei Fedorov wasn't one of my favorite players, I could probably argue that LeClair was. And besides, if I'm scratching contemporary names off of the list in 1999 to make room for Fedorov, I'd knock out pre-Florida Bure before LeClair.