Gary Nylund
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- Oct 10, 2013
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I'll re-phrase:
As far as any list to determine the greatest of all time in anything is concerned, Wayne Gretzky is as unanimous as it gets as #1 in hockey.
Meaning he gets the most votes. Sure probably, recency bias is a thing.
I remember back near the end of Gretzky's career when about 50 respected hockey people were asked who was better, Gretzky or Orr. It was close but what was interesting was that even then, many of the people were so young they had never seen Orr play and most of them picked Gretzky. Out of the people who had seen them both though, most picked Orr. I'm quite sure it would be exactly the same today, unless you actually saw Orr play, you can't possibly comprehend how good he was.