Plays, goals, hits AND fights, though? Kind of hard to beat Neely for a highlight reel that has EVERYTHING?
He also fought and borderline went psychotic a few timesBobby Orr would probably get my vote. I just love the way he could skate around with the puck seemingly doing whatever he wanted on the ice. https://hfboards.mandatory.com/thre...t-video-more-than-3-hours-of-footage.2193705/
As I recall (memory may be fading here in my golden years), when Gretzky played my tribe had the wheel and humans had already begun to control fire."Highlight reel" is Datsyuk, pretty easily, with one of Crosby, Malkin or Ovechkin next, depending on personal preference.
What you have to understand is that a "highlight reel" is going to depend on the available footage and its fidelity. The contours of Datsyuk's career closely match the rise of widespread access digital video storage mediums--and of the players this is true of, his is the most aesthetically pleasing game with the possible exception of McDavid--whose sample size of available footage is nowhere near as long due to the brevity of his career.
Guys like Lemieux, Lindros or--especially--Bobby Orr are just unavoidably going to have quality plays lost to entropy or which weren't recorded in the first place. With Datsyuk, everything after he crossed the ocean was preserved.
So, even if someone were to say "Datsyuk isn't any more eye-popping than Gil P," maybe that could be argued to be true, strictly speaking, but the fact of the matter is there isn't enough footage to compile the proof and the footage will be of a much lower quality. You're going to have 10 hours of mindblowing Datsyuk plays and, like, 19 minutes of Perreault (at best).
As I recall (memory may be fading here in my golden years), when Gretzky played my tribe had the wheel and humans had already begun to control fire.
To be fair ovechkins best goals are some of the best ever.As I recall (memory may be fading here in my golden years), when Gretzky played my tribe had the wheel and humans had already begun to control fire.
I mean, I get what you're saying, but to me the opposite is often true. For example, Bobby Orr is before my time, and partly as a result I'm fascinated by the limited highlights I can see of him in his prime, whereas I get bored very quickly watching endless and limitless highlights of Ovechkin in HD blasting one-timers from the same spot over and over.
Nah, Forsberg has Datsyuk beat concerning "Highlight reel"."Highlight reel" is Datsyuk, pretty easily.
Nah, Forsberg has Datsyuk beat concerning "Highlight reel".
Considering he played just ONE season with the Nordiques (and a shortened season), you won't find a lot of footage.How much of his Nords footage do you have?
Nifty is another gem, I remember when Boston got him, thought the Rangers were fleeced.