Wayne Gretzky feeds Mario Lemieux in the 1997 NHL All-Star G

Wayne Gretzky feeds Mario Lemieux in the 1997 NHL All-Star Game

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• Gretzky
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• Lemieux

[hizzleeee]

mario- most skilled player ever (could have been the best)

wayne- the great one (the name speaks for itself)

bossy- the purest goal scorer ever

and you cant argue with that. well, you can try, but its not going anywhere. even wayne agrees with that

[garyaxworthy]

99 to 66 .. and goes roof daddy on 33

[Saxbyd]

@hizzleeee no qualm but you have to put Orr in there at least as a footnote

[mature076]

too bad gretzky doesnt play any more!!!!!

[jessc1979]

Gretzky, Lemieux, Messier, Bourque and Coffey together again. The greatest power play unit. I wonder if Doug Maclean put them out there together.

[DBZJohnny123]

also the goalies have bigger pads, better equipment

[DBZJohnny123]

rofl the goalies nowadays are much better and more fit, same with defencemen, goalies back then got scored in so easily cause there were no butterfly goalies, only standing goalies

[Jsouthwell2006]

@juzu4me and thats why i like old time hockey, back then skilled players also had toughness

[juzu4me]

Put those 2 on a line against the girls in the NHL nowadays and you get 20 Stanley Cups in a row for whatever team they'd be playing for. I don't mean at their age now but in their 20s. The NHL nowadays is just a pussfest

[HardyRah]

nice.. diashow!

[kuljetus14]

@lonkylaine

Scoring race would have been like this:

1. Gretzky 82 games 100 + 300= 400 points

2. Lemieux 60 games 200 + 180= 380 points

3. Yzerman 80 games 45 + 45= 90 points

[JJJMMM1]

@hizzleeee

Well, you can argue with the semantics. Gretzky is just being modest. His game sense and playmaking skills were above even Lemieux's, and that may make him the most skilled player by definition. But it's certainly a toss between the two; as a power forward, Lemieux is undoubtedly the best ever.

You could also argue that Brett Hull is the purest goal scorer ever.