TheDevilMadeMe
Registered User
Agree, just listing the decades they played in and looking for overlap is not a good way to determine which players are of the same generation. Messier is listed for the 2000's and Sakic for the 1980's...they had almost no relevance during those time frames.
I mean, tarheel does have a point in that there is a big gap between Howie Morenz's death and Jean Beliveau entering the league, where we have nobody, but part of that is because the best forwards in the early 50s (Howe, Richard, Lindsay, Geoffrion, Moore) were all wingers.