Including all generations, who's bigger in Canada, Bobby Orr or Wayne Gretzky?

[Wetcoaster]

Here was a question put to me once. You have to make your answer based soley on their junior careers and forget anything they accomplished in the NHL.

What order would the following players be drafted assuming they were all eligible the same year. (you have to base yor anwer on Junior careers alone).

Bobby Orr
Wayne Gretzky
Mario Lemieux
Eric Lindros


My answer was and still is:

# 1 Bobby Orr
# 2 Eric Lindros
# 3 Mario Lemieux
# 4 Wayne Gretzky

ps. since you started the thread I do not feel this is a hi-jacking situation but rather a slight side-bar

Based on the junior career alone you would have to consider Bryan Fogarty and Denis Potvin as D-men after Orr.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

That's english Canada!

If you go to french Canada it's definitively the Rocket.

So true. Every person in Quebec knows and admires The Rocket.