Lindros vs. Malkin

[Dipsy Doodle]

Lindros was incredible. Malkin is a great player without a doubt, but at his best Lindros was unstoppable. He simply owned the ice.

Moreover, when I compare players at their peak, I think of it as "who would I want more for one game at their very best?", and in that regard, I take Lindros every time. As you extend the window of time considered "peak", Malkin becomes a better player, and it's more from injuries than anything else. It wasn't as if Lindros got "figured out" after his Hart season, he just couldn't stay on the ice game in and game out for seasons on end. There is, of course, something to be said for staying healthy, but comparing peaks is not the time to do so, IMO.

Worth noting here that in terms of peak and who you'd take for one game, Malkin literally scored the most playoff points in a single playoff run by any forward not named Gretzky or Lemieux.

And he did it with Fedotenko and Talbot on his wings at ES, who few would confuse with prime Leclair and Renberg...to put it diplomatically.

 

[Fire Benning]

Prime healthy Lindros was a cheat code. Sam can be said about Malkin though.

 

[HyPnOtiK]

his peak was absolutely not better, in fact it's an insult to malkin to compare him to lindros

i'm tired of the disrespect malkin gets from not making the top 100 all time list to comparing him to overrated guys like lindros

You should be tired of being wrong. How is it an insult for Malkin to be compared to the most physically dominant player at their peak in NHL history? The fact that Malkin is getting any votes is a huge honor to him

 

[HyPnOtiK]

how is it clearly Lindros at peak play?

Compare their best single season....the stat line is very similar.

adjust that Malkin was by far the best player in the world in his best year and Lindros wasn't....

Also if you bring playoff resumes into this....Malkin should be easily winning this poll if we take in account whole career


Both have a Hart. So I don't see how one is clearly above another at their peak.

Soooo, lindros gets penalized for playing in an ERA with more elite players? Similar scoring at peak and lindros did absolutely everything else much better. Defense, physical play, etc.

 

[HyPnOtiK]

People love the idea of Lindros more than what he actually was

Kids who say this aren't adults yet and never watched Lindros game in and game out

 

[Beauner]

Kids who say this aren't adults yet and never watched Lindros game in and game out

A) not a kid
B) thank you for clarifying that kids are not, in fact, adults

 

[6 Karlsson 5]

Man, for all this talk about how great lindros is, the stats don't really back it up. However, I get it; he was big and hit people so that makes him like 20x better than his actual stats, kinda like pronger.

I'm seeing top 5 all time? Is that serious?

 

[joez86]

Man, for all this talk about how great lindros is, the stats don't really back it up. However, I get it; he was big and hit people so that makes him like 20x better than his actual stats, kinda like pronger.

I'm seeing top 5 all time? Is that serious?

I think you are neglecting the fact that this thread is comparing these two players' peaks, not their entire careers.

 

[Nadal On Clay]

Physical play is terribly overrated in this thread.

 

[6 Karlsson 5]

I think you are neglecting the fact that this thread is comparing these two players' peaks, not their entire careers.

Yea, he ain't top 5 peak either lmao.

 

[joez86]

Yea, he ain't top 5 peak either lmao.

I'd say it is at least arguable, and that he is definitely in the top 10... but it really depends on how long the ranking person considers a player's "peak" to last.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Lindros.

 

[Sasso09]

Yea, he ain't top 5 peak either lmao.

Without a shadow of a doubt he is

 

[Sasso09]

A) not a kid
B) thank you for clarifying that kids are not, in fact, adults

Honest question though. How old are you? Your opinion really makes me wonder

 

[YEM]

Malkin, better playmaker: Lindros, better at everything else

 

[bambamcam4ever]

I'd say it is at least arguable, and that he is definitely in the top 10... but it really depends on how long the ranking person considers a player's "peak" to last.

It most certainly isn't.

 

[bambamcam4ever]

Man, for all this talk about how great lindros is, the stats don't really back it up. However, I get it; he was big and hit people so that makes him like 20x better than his actual stats, kinda like pronger.

I'm seeing top 5 all time? Is that serious?

Unfortuantely, shiny things like these are more important to the common fan than how good a player actually was at hockey. Being big and physical and all is nice and hard to miss, but there are many ways to be an effective player.

 

[dr robbie]

Honest question though. How old are you? Your opinion really makes me wonder

... because anyone that has a different opinion than you has to be ignorant on the topic due to not seeing them?

I'm old enough to remember Lindros being drafted. Yes, a lot of his aura is due to him being a big guy with soft hands and the crazy hype when he entered the league. But he's definitely got the Pronger affect where people remember him being better than he was for whatever reason.

Regardless, it's toss-up to me. Both had very nice peaks and benefit from playing on strong teams at the right time.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Lindros, Fedorov, and Forsberg are all overrated on this board due to 90s nostalgia. They are all worse than each of Crosby, Malkin, and Ovechkin.

 

[DDRhockey]

Lol at lindros winning. Zero cups and zero playoff success.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Lindros, Fedorov, and Forsberg are all overrated on this board due to 90s nostalgia. They are all worse than each of Crosby, Malkin, and Ovechkin.

I think Forsberg and Malkin aren’t too far from each other. I think Malkin is barely ahead of Forsberg but I wouldn’t say Foppa is that overrated around here.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Without a shadow of a doubt he is

So he peaked as high as Gordie Howe, Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Bobby Orr? Yeah ok.

 

[jj cale]

Man, for all this talk about how great lindros is, the stats don't really back it up. However, I get it; he was big and hit people so that makes him like 20x better than his actual stats, kinda like pronger.

I'm seeing top 5 all time? Is that serious?

Pronger was a hell of a lot more then just a big guy who hit people, he was an amazing player at his best and one of a few guys who could control the whole game from the back end.

I sometimes wonder if some posters even watched the players play they comment on.

 

[daver]

Lindros, Fedorov, and Forsberg are all overrated on this board due to 90s nostalgia. They are all worse than each of Crosby, Malkin, and Ovechkin.

Malkin gets some of the same treatment as Lindros and Forsberg. A lot of assumptions are made about their missed time. Malkin has the higher offensive ceiling than Lindros.

 

[Cup or Bust]

Man, for all this talk about how great lindros is, the stats don't really back it up. However, I get it; he was big and hit people so that makes him like 20x better than his actual stats, kinda like pronger.

I'm seeing top 5 all time? Is that serious?

Or maybe they actually watched all these guys play and know what they are talking about. Kinda like Pronger? Now I know you do not know what you are talking about.