Lil Sebastian Cossa
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- Jul 6, 2012
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It kind of annoys me that it's as close as it is. To me this one is just a no brainer.
Stevie Y's era was littered with guys just like him and there were two guys that we're a lot better than him (Gretzky and Lemieux). Lidstrom was arguably the best at his position during his era, you'd get laughed at for saying the same about Yzerman.
Littered with guys just like him? He was the clear #3 behind the two best players to ever play the history of the sport.
You should be getting laughed at for saying there is no comparison between the 7th leading scorer of all time who spent the entire 2nd half of his career playing it on one leg as a perennial Selke candidate, PPG center and Nick Lidstrom.
Lidstrom was arguably the best D in the league... but what the hell... he didn't have Larry Robinson and Bobby Orr in their primes playing in the league when he did. It's a terrible argument to say "Yzerman was never the best in the league" when his competition IS the two best players to ever lace them up.
It is a tough choice between the two. Lidstrom is as fine a player as they come. But it is massively underrating one of the guys if you say one is definitively better than the other.