Not really IMO. Malkin is superior to Maltsev as a scorer IMO. Iginla is marginally ahead of Alfredsson. Obviously Gottselig would have a pretty big leg up on Gillies but it's not like it cripples Kenora IMO, because Gillies played a similar role for NY. He was a distant 3rd wheel offensively who did the heavy lifting and dirty work. Having him there frees Malkin up from having to do much in the way of standing up for the line in a physical manner.
I was thinking in terms of trying to close the checking line gap. And honestly the second line would be much grittier with Gillies on it. Him playing on a scoring line didn't hurt the Islander dynasty much. But that's completely up to HT and paperhoes.
Agreed that Malkin is better than Maltsev. If my math is right, Malkin moves up to a 7 season vs.x score of 93.4 after this season. That's better than Maltsev's assigned value of 90. Both guys were significantly better on a per game basis, so that argument can probably be put aside.
At even strength, Iginla is quite a bit better offensively than Alfredsson. According to HO's ES VS.X chart, Iginla has a score of 65. Alfredsson has a score of 55 in that same chart.
Alfredsson scored 59% of his points at ES. If you apply that to his (normal) vs.x score of 82.3, it comes out to a score of 48.6.
Iginla scored 65% of his points at ES. If you apply that to his vs.x score of 86.7, it comes out to 56.4.
That’s a pretty significant edge for Iginla and that's before you look beyond the flat numbers to see how much Iginla was his teams only real offensive weapon for most of his career. Alfresson put up great numbers with great line mates. That’s good too, but less impressive. Iginla led his team in scoring 11 seasons in a row, with never less than a 6 points gap over the next guy. Alfredsson led his team in scoring 4 times, with 3 of those being either a tie or a 1 point lead.
Gillies doesn’t add that much grit over Dumart, who was a big strong guy himself. Neither one was an offensive catalyst.