Ezpz
No mad pls
- Apr 16, 2013
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Players just don't age as well as they used to due to the quality of competition being so much higher. Every 3 years we're seeing new "best young dmen" in the league. Karlsson, Doughty and Subban are supposed to still be competing for the Norris and are basically done at 31 years old. Nobody will ever touch Harvey, Orr, Lidstrom again. Nobody was even touching Lidstrom in the league until he was 42 and slowed down.Would never compare someone to Orr, that's too high a barometer.
Lidstrom, to me at least, is simply not a good stylistic comparison though I'd put him at #2 all-time.
Essentially I think Makar can be top 10 all time, possibly top 5, so long as he continues to refine his game defensively.