I think McDavid would be behind Gretzky.
Maybe the gap between Gretzky and everyone else is smaller, but that gap was massive. He was so far beyond everyone else.
McDavid, as good as he is, just isn’t far enough ahead of everyone else to say he would top Gretzky. If you try to make that argument, you might as well say the entire top 5 producers now would be better. Is that really what we’re going to try to say? McDavid has an edge on the current talent. Gretzky had a gap the size of the Moon.
Either the top 5 producers now would be better, or McDavid would be behind the greatest player of all time. Still. I know which way I’d lean.