The reason those teams were "stacked" was cause of Gretzky! Without Gretzky, that Oilers team wouldn't have been that great. Look at them once Gretz was gone, they were not close, and none of the players on that team came close to those numbers with Gretzky not on their team. Whereas Gretzky continued to dominate without them. Messier may have scored 50, but Gretzky would have drawn the best defenders, leaving Messier to pick apart the rest. Kurri's talent was highly tied to Wayne, as without him, he is nowhere near the numbers he put up. Point being, the Oilers could have had a much worse roster and Wayne would still have put up awesome numbers. He also did quite well on the Kings who weren't exactly the greatest team. Also, not like Ovechkin has been playing with scrubs for teammates. He had Semin when he was still good, and has had one of the best centers in the game, for pretty much his whole career in Backstrom.