There's a huge difference between "He is the next X player" and "he reminds me of X player" Two players can be compared by their style of play without saying he has the same talent or will have the same career
Auston Bobber good point. Its kind of strange to say someone "is the next xyz", because theres a million thing that would have made them unique, nit just their playstyle their personalities, their motivations, etc. Its probably best to just use the players own name and see what they can do as themselves before comparing them to the great ones
Pity Kharlamov never got to play in the nhl. I watched a film about him and the Russia vs Canada match and it was great. One of the greatest players of all time to never play in the NHL
not just Kharlamov, seeing players like Tretiak, Fetisov, Mikhailov, and Makarov (in their primes, I know some of them played in the NHL later in their careers) would have been insane
@@silentmuse182 fetisov,makarov where still damn good. Agree would have been awesome to have had them in their primes. Tretiak not playing in the nhl was a travesty. I wonder how he would have been. Even larionov came in late
I love Elias Pettersson, and I think he has the potential to become a Hall of Fame players. To be compared to Gretzky is great, but don't get your hopes up. It isn't fair to those young players.
I think you're misinterpreting the comparison, he was never said to be the NEXT Wayne Gretzky (correct me if i'm wrong) but I think what was meant is that the impact he has on the game for a player his size (not the tallest, not the most muscular, to be honest; fairly average build) is Wayne Gretzky-esque, meaning that he can dominate a game using high IQ and a wickedly deceptive shot (sort of like Gretzky's skillset) however, Wayne had a hockey IQ that nobody will ever be able to match. It was more just a comparison of skillsets, not the actual skill itself.
@@Eibarwoman Talent was never there either lol. He never scored even in juniors and Pronger was a PPG dmen before his draft year. People just saw a big mean dman who could skate and that was it.
@@alessandroscuderi7300 Even more yikes as to why Morin was taken that high. The best comparison probably should be Hal Gill or Adam Foote with superior skating.
Considering Morin has played only about 30 games in last three years, mayby they meant to compare him to Pronger late in his career, between seasons 2012-2017.
Lidstrom was in a league of his own when in his prime. Imo the best defenseman of all time. I think Sweden produces the best defensemen. Klingberg, OEL, Hedman, Karlsson etc. Two of them are probably the best defenseman of this generation and that's Hedman and Karlsson (when his healthy and plays like he did in Ottawa he truly is a dominant player on the ice) but a fact is even they don't come close to Lidstrom
I remember in the middle of 2012 season, Grigorenko was hyped up to be a top 5 pick, and his slip down to halfway down the first round was really shocking. It seems like those GMs that passed him knew something we didn't
His numbers seems to have developed in KHL during last two seasons, he has doubled his point total from first KHL season. Mayby he has matured and could be more nhl ready now. If he even wants to come back.
@slapdatpuck88 Well, I'd prefer if he was 6'3'', he'd surely score 40 regularly, but with his small frame, he's gonna have bigger obstacle to surmount.
@@alessandroscuderi7300 he gets pumped up for rivalry games. Flyers have had some terrible luck with injuries. I hate the Flyers but I'm really pulling for Patrick and Lindholm to recover and quickly.
@@allsystemsgo8678 Yeah its brutal with both. Hopefully both can even live normal lives at this point and them being incredible young hockey players is another thing. Lindblom was also our best kept secret. Elite defensively and our best goal scorer and then boom out of nowhere he has cancer. Crazy. Him visiting the Flyers today was awesom but also really sad seeing how tough he looked from the chemo.
Hockey "experts" dont know much. I remenber In 1999 when Gretzky retired, a ljmhq expert said on the radio Christopher Montgomery was is replacement. At the time a 16 year old entering the Q. Kid was not even drafted by an NHL team. www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=49889
Lemieux was injury plagued and played far less games than Yzerman despite being only slightly behind him on the leader board. Lemieux's ppg stats are consistent with Gretzky and the two of them stand in a league of their own, being a good 30% ahead of everyone else. As such, he's widely regarded as being better than Yzerman though obviously, your personal opinion is yours to realize. Other detail worth noting: this was '93. Lemieux had just raked in the Art Ross, Hart, Lester B Pearson, amongst others while Yzerman was a finalist for none and Lemieux was a good 20 points ahead of Yzerman in season scoring despite playing only 3/4 of the season while Yzerman had played the entire season.
@@stephencook1004 Didn't know it was cancer, did know he had retired early, ended up in the Hall of Fame, ended up an owner, and then came back to play for himself to be the first player that was all three at the same time....
I feel bad for the Ottawa Senators for taking him 1st overall and he was compared to Joe Sakic and other legends but became the worst bust of all time instead of an Legend like what he could of did with all his potential.
@@bobber1165 It was just a bad hockey club at that time, he really was meant to turn it all around, overnight for them. If he had went to a lesser hockey market, like Tampa or Anaheim it could have been a lot different. I really want someone to write a biography about Daigle, gettting some insights to his personality and temperament
Still feel like yakupov could pull a radulov and be a valuable scorer in the NHL. He’s always had the talent. It was a question of maturity and work ethic. If he’s been able to mature as he’s gotten older, he may well still turn out to be a decent player. Whether someone gives him another chance remains to be seen.
I've heard people say Alexis Lafreniere is the next Crosby and McDavid. From what I saw in the world juniors he looks good but a different playing style than those 2 guys.
Heard that too. He doesn't impress me. But I've seen guys where I didn't see the hype and they became stars. Hard to know. I like Rossi. I think he will be the next great playmaker and a selke player. I will be wrong but it's what I see
you could make an hour long list of just Pierre McGuirre during any of the World Junior tournament he worked. 90% of the things he said were comparing a 18-19 year old to hall of fame/all-star hockey players. They still do it, but it has lessened significantly in the past few years.. strange that it coincided with McGuire departure for US television
One of biggest comparison made in the late 80’s. Everyone was comparing Bryan Fogarty to Denis Potvin. Mainly because he broke a lot of ohl potvin’s records. Fogarty ended up being dragged down by alcoholism.
Missed on eric lindros in this list. Hewas dubbed the next one being compared to lemieux and gretzky. Lindros had a nice career but not even close to those two. And the flyers gave up a kings ransom for him.
He was a great player in his prime though, one of my favorites, and had the tools you'd hope in a player, great size, shot, hands, skating. But obviously that's a huge reach
Grigerenko wasn't a bust because of his comparison. He was rushed by buffalo with 0 support. He was a casualty of Darcy Regier thinking you can rid yourself of the guys that make your team great and play rookies and get the same result.
Going back to the 70's I think it was first round pick Fred Williams by Detroit that Lindsey said he would be the next Delvicchio. Played 44 games I think.
All this hype surrounding Lafreniere scares me... He's been a hero at the Hivan Linka Cup and the 2020 WJCs, but too much expectation is never good... He could be a productive forward in the NHL, yet not reaching Crosby's or McDavid's level would still be a disapointment, considering all the hype... Fortunately, he has not been disapointing so far when the stakes were high
I always figured a better comparison for Laffy was a cross between Marchand and rick nash. Nothing wrong with that, both are/were great players. Just completely different than Crosby.
I mean, I watched Alexandre Daigle play and I wouldn't have complained about having him in Edmonton during the 90's 🤷🏼♂️ I've also always figured, man I like Mark Scheifele much more than Nail Yakupov
Lidstrom is was one of the top defensemen of all time so to make a future comparison is getting way a head! Hopefully he is a top 4 defensemen for Detroit and improves from there
I think both Patrick Stefan and Yakupov were bigger busts. Check career games played and stats, Daigle easily beats both. Problem is he ended up as a top 9 forward and not a franchise player like everyone expected.
Yes but Daigle had such skills as a junior that he had much more expectations than Stefan and Yakupov. I agree with your point, he had a better career than them. But seeing how talented Daigle actually was, he is a bigger bust. It must have been his mind that wasn't ready for the expectations. Had he been taken, let jd say at 10th, I suppose it could have been a very good career. Lower expectations, not too low. We will never know.. but Stefan just sucked. Probably would never have been nr 1 pic if not for Brian Burke
You say "Nick Lidström is arguably one of the greatest defensemen of all time" I would like to see who would argue against that. Its not arguable. Whats arguable is if hes the greatest defenseman of all time period.
Players that were better than their comparison weren't compared to anybody because nobody thought they'd be NHL players. It would just be like "yeah this Datsyuk guy has some solid hand-eye co-ordination might be a solid burger cook in a few years once he gives up on this hockey thing."
I also think it's so stupid when someone compares a young, talented player to more than one amazing player, especially when the players they compares to are not even the same type of player, for example I have a friend who said that Larkin would be a players type like Yzerman, Shanahan and Lidström. I mean they all 3 are amazing, but their play-style are completely different. Shanahan had a more aggressive and more of a power forward kind of play-style, Yzerman could play tough, but his primary role was to be a play-maker and a game-director and make his teammates better, Lidström is more of a two-way defensive player with a lot of elegance and rather used his smarts rather than using his brawn. I hate comparing players in this way, but I would rather say that Larkin is more of a Zetterberg kind of play style, but as I said this is why I don't like to compare players in this way because Larkin is his own player just as Zetterberg was his own, like I said I do not like it.
Lafreniere is at 2.19 points per game at age 18. When he was a year younger than Lafreniere, Sydney Crosby was averaging 2.70 points per game in the same league. The era was lower scoring than today too. So Crosby was probably much better. Lafreniere is obviously very good but a player at Crosby's level comes along only once every 10-20 years. Howe, Richard, Orr, Gretzky, Lemieux, Crosby. The only player since these guys who even gets in the same sentence is McDavid. Lafreniere is not one of these guys.
Bob McKenzie didn’t compare daigle to nhl legends, he compared them to top centers in the league his draft year. Sakic and Yzerman hadn’t won shit in 93. That being the number 1 compared to the others is just stupid. That was realistic given the potential he’d shown, to be a star center
they way you pronounced each letter in CSKA Moscow drove me crazy lol but this was an amazing video, very interesting- the comparisons are never good, but oof do these ones suck in retrospect
Patrik Laine being named the second coming of the Finnish Flash makes me cringe. Teemu was a good guy, Laine is a diva who talks shit about his teammates
@@Junokaii you sound so stupid oH mY GOd THe ThrEE TImE StAnLEY cUp WinnER Is ScChOoO BAd He HaD ONe GoLD mEDal hAS wOn preTTy muCh EvErY AWard thERe is He soooo Bad smh
When Valeri Nichushkin was drafted by Dallas, Jaromir Jagr said he could be the best in the world someday. Looking at it now, he has a looooooong way to go lol.
Here in Czech Republic, anyone who scores in the NHL is the next Jágr.
Better than being the next Nedved
There's a huge difference between "He is the next X player" and "he reminds me of X player"
Two players can be compared by their style of play without saying he has the same talent or will have the same career
Auston Bobber good point. Its kind of strange to say someone "is the next xyz", because theres a million thing that would have made them unique, nit just their playstyle their personalities, their motivations, etc. Its probably best to just use the players own name and see what they can do as themselves before comparing them to the great ones
Exactly!! Theres a difference in play style and talent. You can play like crosby without being as good
@Ali Desch Random comeback, but with your name and from another of your comments I saw, are u Quebecers?
@@bobber1165 Eastern Ontario (Capital region).
Pity Kharlamov never got to play in the nhl. I watched a film about him and the Russia vs Canada match and it was great. One of the greatest players of all time to never play in the NHL
Nicolas Lahky he died in 1981 in a car accident in the USSR
@@marcuskuhnert2105 I know
not just Kharlamov, seeing players like Tretiak, Fetisov, Mikhailov, and Makarov (in their primes, I know some of them played in the NHL later in their careers) would have been insane
@@silentmuse182 yeah Tretiak was a hell of a goalie
@@silentmuse182 fetisov,makarov where still damn good. Agree would have been awesome to have had them in their primes. Tretiak not playing in the nhl was a travesty. I wonder how he would have been. Even larionov came in late
Elias Pettersson is the next Wayne Gretzky made me laugh and this is coming from a Canucks fan.
He was making a comparison with his style of play not his talent
Gretzky said that he was remembering him, not that he was the next Great one
Elias Pettersson is one of my favorite players even though I'm a Jets fan
That's an impossible stretch but Pettersson could very well be the next Datsyuk
I love Elias Pettersson, and I think he has the potential to become a Hall of Fame players. To be compared to Gretzky is great, but don't get your hopes up. It isn't fair to those young players.
I think you're misinterpreting the comparison, he was never said to be the NEXT Wayne Gretzky (correct me if i'm wrong) but I think what was meant is that the impact he has on the game for a player his size (not the tallest, not the most muscular, to be honest; fairly average build) is Wayne Gretzky-esque, meaning that he can dominate a game using high IQ and a wickedly deceptive shot (sort of like Gretzky's skillset) however, Wayne had a hockey IQ that nobody will ever be able to match. It was more just a comparison of skillsets, not the actual skill itself.
Wow was that picture at the beginning of jack Hughes at the draft or at his 15th birthday party?
jay oakes it was the day he graduated elementary school
LOOOOOOOOOOOL
Both.
Samuel Morin comparing to Chris Pronger was a funny one.
A glass Pronger, the talent may be there... but he shatters like a pane of glass
They Said the same avoir komisarek and hainsey lol
@@Eibarwoman Talent was never there either lol. He never scored even in juniors and Pronger was a PPG dmen before his draft year. People just saw a big mean dman who could skate and that was it.
@@alessandroscuderi7300 Even more yikes as to why Morin was taken that high. The best comparison probably should be Hal Gill or Adam Foote with superior skating.
Considering Morin has played only about 30 games in last three years, mayby they meant to compare him to Pronger late in his career, between seasons 2012-2017.
Lidstrom was in a league of his own when in his prime. Imo the best defenseman of all time. I think Sweden produces the best defensemen. Klingberg, OEL, Hedman, Karlsson etc. Two of them are probably the best defenseman of this generation and that's Hedman and Karlsson (when his healthy and plays like he did in Ottawa he truly is a dominant player on the ice) but a fact is even they don't come close to Lidstrom
And goalies, because sweden focuses on the defensive part of the game more than any other country
boucheradam sweden’s goalies aren’t that impressive
@@matsmatsson8783 if you count the amount of swedich goalies in the nhl in % there are Many, Sweden are not big either
Berra yea sure but it’s not about the quantity it’s about the quality and sweden’s top goalies aren’t that good buddy
Swedish Defence. That country, Sweden, knows how to produce defencemen.
I remember in the middle of 2012 season, Grigorenko was hyped up to be a top 5 pick, and his slip down to halfway down the first round was really shocking. It seems like those GMs that passed him knew something we didn't
@Dan Smulders I would love to hear more about that!
His numbers seems to have developed in KHL during last two seasons, he has doubled his point total from first KHL season. Mayby he has matured and could be more nhl ready now. If he even wants to come back.
I feel a wee bit for Nail. He's one of the greatest busts in history.
And then he got fucked up by Frieza and simply became a power up for Piccolo.
Not bad considering that Piccolo + Nail went up against Frieza in 2nd form. Matched up blow for blow, not bad.
I laughed hard
The worst one is Cole Caufield was compared to Lionel Messi
Laysers 2 XD
Haha I saw that. It also said there was room to improve his size.. as if it was his decision to be small lmao
@slapdatpuck88 Well, I'd prefer if he was 6'3'', he'd surely score 40 regularly, but with his small frame, he's gonna have bigger obstacle to surmount.
Still ticked off the Isles were able to flip Reinhart for Barzal even tho Reinhart was developing poorly already
On the flip side, myself and all other Islander fans are delighted that this happened
@@allsystemsgo8678 Barzal looks like fucking McDavid every time he plays my Flyers. Hate it.
good way to fix a big fuckup
@@alessandroscuderi7300 he gets pumped up for rivalry games. Flyers have had some terrible luck with injuries. I hate the Flyers but I'm really pulling for Patrick and Lindholm to recover and quickly.
@@allsystemsgo8678 Yeah its brutal with both. Hopefully both can even live normal lives at this point and them being incredible young hockey players is another thing. Lindblom was also our best kept secret. Elite defensively and our best goal scorer and then boom out of nowhere he has cancer. Crazy. Him visiting the Flyers today was awesom but also really sad seeing how tough he looked from the chemo.
It's pronounced eye-zer-men
@slapdatpuck88 lol that took me a second
Yes sir man!
slapdatpuck88 you’re a bad gm, boooom got em
What are you Russian?
I went back to an article comparing 2012 NHL 1st round picks and they had Nail Yakupov compared to Alex Ovechkin
I remember Adam Larsson was said to be the "next Nicklas Lidstrom"
Oh boy, these are baaaaaaadddd
Looks like the 2012 draft is my favorite draft class for all the wrong reasons
Hockey "experts" dont know much. I remenber In 1999 when Gretzky retired, a ljmhq expert said on the radio Christopher Montgomery was is replacement. At the time a 16 year old entering the Q. Kid was not even drafted by an NHL team.
www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=49889
I enjoyed the video. But I think you should make a video on the NHL's best beards. Joe Thornton....
Burnsie
True but so recognizable lol
I remember hearing Nail Yakupov would be scoring just like Ovechkin...lol
8:29 isnt steve yzerman above mario lemieux on the leaderboard?
astronaut dolphin detective look at game played
Lemieux was injury plagued and played far less games than Yzerman despite being only slightly behind him on the leader board. Lemieux's ppg stats are consistent with Gretzky and the two of them stand in a league of their own, being a good 30% ahead of everyone else. As such, he's widely regarded as being better than Yzerman though obviously, your personal opinion is yours to realize.
Other detail worth noting: this was '93. Lemieux had just raked in the Art Ross, Hart, Lester B Pearson, amongst others while Yzerman was a finalist for none and Lemieux was a good 20 points ahead of Yzerman in season scoring despite playing only 3/4 of the season while Yzerman had played the entire season.
@@forgottenfamily ive never looked into lemieuxs history, thanks for the knowledge
@@forgottenfamily he had cancer and retired very young originally.
@@stephencook1004 Didn't know it was cancer, did know he had retired early, ended up in the Hall of Fame, ended up an owner, and then came back to play for himself to be the first player that was all three at the same time....
I feel bad for the Ottawa Senators for taking him 1st overall and he was compared to Joe Sakic and other legends but became the worst bust of all time instead of an Legend like what he could of did with all his potential.
Shame on Ottawa for putting so much pressure on the kid too.
@@bobber1165 It was just a bad hockey club at that time, he really was meant to turn it all around, overnight for them. If he had went to a lesser hockey market, like Tampa or Anaheim it could have been a lot different. I really want someone to write a biography about Daigle, gettting some insights to his personality and temperament
Still feel like yakupov could pull a radulov and be a valuable scorer in the NHL. He’s always had the talent. It was a question of maturity and work ethic. If he’s been able to mature as he’s gotten older, he may well still turn out to be a decent player. Whether someone gives him another chance remains to be seen.
He has no eye for the game. Stickhandling and skating perhaps but no hockeysense. 2012 was weak. A year later he would not have been top 10
Hey man great vid! Be got a idea for a future video, instead of the worst comparasions.. maybe the BEST COMPARASIONS OF ALL TIME?????
"Alexis is the next Sidney"
Even in MTL Ive never heard anyone suggest that.
I've heard plenty of it
@@wsmfp_4207 Rimouski? Parce que meme RDS pi TVA sports vont pas aussi loin!
Mark Jankowski to Joe Nieuwendyk is a classic
Feaster saying hes gonna be the biggest steal of that draft...dear god how dumb you gotta be?
Great video, as always
Filip Lindblad I wonder how much seconds our comments were aprt
@@jakejohnson1411 I think it was like 5 seconds
Laf-Rin-YAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY
The Oilers media used to always compared Hopkins to Gretzky
Great content!
I've heard people say Alexis Lafreniere is the next Crosby and McDavid. From what I saw in the world juniors he looks good but a different playing style than those 2 guys.
Heard that too. He doesn't impress me. But I've seen guys where I didn't see the hype and they became stars. Hard to know. I like Rossi. I think he will be the next great playmaker and a selke player. I will be wrong but it's what I see
you could make an hour long list of just Pierre McGuirre during any of the World Junior tournament he worked. 90% of the things he said were comparing a 18-19 year old to hall of fame/all-star hockey players. They still do it, but it has lessened significantly in the past few years.. strange that it coincided with McGuire departure for US television
One of biggest comparison made in the late 80’s. Everyone was comparing Bryan Fogarty to Denis Potvin. Mainly because he broke a lot of ohl potvin’s records. Fogarty ended up being dragged down by alcoholism.
I wish Yzerman had the first pick last summer just so I could laugh when he passes on Hughes and Kappo, and selects Dach.
Missed on eric lindros in this list. Hewas dubbed the next one being compared to lemieux and gretzky. Lindros had a nice career but not even close to those two. And the flyers gave up a kings ransom for him.
I still remember folks saying that Oleg Tverdovsky was the next Bobby Orr. Yeah....not so much.
This is something too be said as well, that 2nd round pick the islanders got for Reinhart they changed to the 28th overall pick which became beau.
People always forget that they got Barzal and Beau. Beautiful day for the islanders. 😊 😊 😊
"I expect Vincent Lecavalier to be the Michael Jordan of hockey", Tampa Bay owner Art Williams.
That was a bit much
He was a great player in his prime though, one of my favorites, and had the tools you'd hope in a player, great size, shot, hands, skating. But obviously that's a huge reach
I'm still waiting on his stint with the Tampa Bay Rays AA team
@@villel7864 I agree. That comment was just an over excited owner that didn't really know hockney too well.
Grigerenko wasn't a bust because of his comparison. He was rushed by buffalo with 0 support. He was a casualty of Darcy Regier thinking you can rid yourself of the guys that make your team great and play rookies and get the same result.
Going back to the 70's I think it was first round pick Fred Williams by Detroit that Lindsey said he would be the next Delvicchio. Played 44 games I think.
What about any comparisons where a prospect was compared to a mediocre nhl player, but ended up being phenomenal?
You got me. I had to subscribe.
After being drafted 1st overall, the Tampa Bay Lightning said Vincent Lecavalier would be the Michael Jordan of hockey
Grigerenko as a trio of Malkin,Kovalev, and Thornton is a beauty. 😂
All this hype surrounding Lafreniere scares me... He's been a hero at the Hivan Linka Cup and the 2020 WJCs, but too much expectation is never good... He could be a productive forward in the NHL, yet not reaching Crosby's or McDavid's level would still be a disapointment, considering all the hype... Fortunately, he has not been disapointing so far when the stakes were high
OhNyquist is the next PewDiePie
I remember when NBC compared one of the Tkachuks, I think Matthew, to Rob Gronkowski. Like really?
Boddaaah that’s a diss cause gronk prob can’t even skate
Just.......
WHY. WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD COMPARISON?
I always figured a better comparison for Laffy was a cross between Marchand and rick nash. Nothing wrong with that, both are/were great players. Just completely different than Crosby.
I have Grigorenko, I have Malkin, Oh, Grigomalkin!
From the mid 90's to the early 2000's every center was either the next Yzerman or the next Modano
I mean, I watched Alexandre Daigle play and I wouldn't have complained about having him in Edmonton during the 90's 🤷🏼♂️ I've also always figured, man I like Mark Scheifele much more than Nail Yakupov
Lidstrom is was one of the top defensemen of all time so to make a future comparison is getting way a head! Hopefully he is a top 4 defensemen for Detroit and improves from there
I think both Patrick Stefan and Yakupov were bigger busts. Check career games played and stats, Daigle easily beats both. Problem is he ended up as a top 9 forward and not a franchise player like everyone expected.
Yes but Daigle had such skills as a junior that he had much more expectations than Stefan and Yakupov. I agree with your point, he had a better career than them. But seeing how talented Daigle actually was, he is a bigger bust. It must have been his mind that wasn't ready for the expectations. Had he been taken, let jd say at 10th, I suppose it could have been a very good career. Lower expectations, not too low. We will never know.. but Stefan just sucked. Probably would never have been nr 1 pic if not for Brian Burke
I’m playing your videos at 1.75 speed to make your rate of speech sound normal
You say "Nick Lidström is arguably one of the greatest defensemen of all time" I would like to see who would argue against that. Its not arguable. Whats arguable is if hes the greatest defenseman of all time period.
Comparing anyone to Lidstrom should be a crime. Lidstrom was pretty much the perfect the defenseman.
Can you make another list like this just using players who were much better than their comparison?
Players that were better than their comparison weren't compared to anybody because nobody thought they'd be NHL players. It would just be like "yeah this Datsyuk guy has some solid hand-eye co-ordination might be a solid burger cook in a few years once he gives up on this hockey thing."
I also think it's so stupid when someone compares a young, talented player to more than one amazing player, especially when the players they compares to are not even the same type of player, for example I have a friend who said that Larkin would be a players type like Yzerman, Shanahan and Lidström. I mean they all 3 are amazing, but their play-style are completely different. Shanahan had a more aggressive and more of a power forward kind of play-style, Yzerman could play tough, but his primary role was to be a play-maker and a game-director and make his teammates better, Lidström is more of a two-way defensive player with a lot of elegance and rather used his smarts rather than using his brawn. I hate comparing players in this way, but I would rather say that Larkin is more of a Zetterberg kind of play style, but as I said this is why I don't like to compare players in this way because Larkin is his own player just as Zetterberg was his own, like I said I do not like it.
If Mikhaïl Grigorenmo was chosen, why not Zemgus Girgensons?
Oilers didnt Nail Yakupov properly. Sucked because i had faith in him.
I'm the next Wayne Glensky
I blame Dallas Eakins for much of Yakupov's failure in the NHL.
Lafreniere is at 2.19 points per game at age 18. When he was a year younger than Lafreniere, Sydney Crosby was averaging 2.70 points per game in the same league. The era was lower scoring than today too. So Crosby was probably much better. Lafreniere is obviously very good but a player at Crosby's level comes along only once every 10-20 years. Howe, Richard, Orr, Gretzky, Lemieux, Crosby. The only player since these guys who even gets in the same sentence is McDavid. Lafreniere is not one of these guys.
But lafreniere is having just as good a junior career as mcdavid ?
If only Sidney Crosby had the work ethic of a Jonathan Drouin...
Bob McKenzie didn’t compare daigle to nhl legends, he compared them to top centers in the league his draft year. Sakic and Yzerman hadn’t won shit in 93. That being the number 1 compared to the others is just stupid. That was realistic given the potential he’d shown, to be a star center
Quinton byfield goes to my school no caps
even Crosby would be a bust if compare to Gretzky ...
Every year the top 5 drafts are hype till they hit the ice
Griffin Reinhart was a great pick it turned to Barzal and beauvillier
Man youre killing me with the adds
Griffin Reinhart was the 4th pick by the NY Islanders, not 5th.
any defenseman drafted by Toronto. all future Hall of Famers. Schenn. Gardiner. Jonnson. Reily .Zaitzev. Sandin. All Bobby Orr 2.0
donovanjd3 Gardiner and zaitzev were not drafted by the leafs.
I thought player comparisona were just based on their playing style not their skill level...
they way you pronounced each letter in CSKA Moscow drove me crazy lol but this was an amazing video, very interesting- the comparisons are never good, but oof do these ones suck in retrospect
How did you pronounce Yzerman wrong when you're a Wings fan? It's "eye-zer-min".
Jack Hughes may be a bust but it’s only his first year
Maybe all of the kids in the 2012 draft sucked so they looked good and produced against eachother
Patrik Laine being named the second coming of the Finnish Flash makes me cringe. Teemu was a good guy, Laine is a diva who talks shit about his teammates
Yeehaw Town He doesnt talk shit about his teammates, his words were manipulated from one interview. He also apologized his teammates after that.
Nobody is the next Crosby
“Nick Lidström 2.0”
At NHL level, who is the closest: Erik Karlsson or Rasmus Dahlin?
Neither
Carlson, Letang, maybe you could argue Karlsson
Dahlin, Karlsson is mostly offensive
Neither is even close.
There is no one in the league on that level
Lol it might be unfair to compare Lafreniere to Crosby but would he rather be compared to Daigle?
Any Swedish defensman -> Nicklas Lidstrom
With the subtitles it says Alexei laughs Rene
Isles fleeced the oilers for barzal. Thanks 🔷🔶🔷🔶 #isles
If I were you I would show the footage of the player comparisons.
Alexi could compared to a guy like Patrick Elias
Love your videos
you beat me
I did
Laf-RIN-YAYYYY
Reinhart was the fourth pick not fifth
lol Lafreniere isn;t compared to Sid cause they're playing for Rimouski lol
Laf is like Kane
alot of 20/20 hindsight here
Luke schenn is the next Erik karlsonn LOL
You forgot Sidney Crosby being compared to Gretzky.
lol thats not a bad comparasion philly fan 1975!! LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO also see how no one agreed with you in SIX MONTHS
@@KrazyStorys Who cares?
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@@KrazyStorys I never said Crosby was bad... I said the comparison between him and Gretzky is bad.
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@@Junokaii but its not.....????
valeri isnt pronounced like the girls name haha. and russians stress the middle syllable, so the last name would be pronounced car-LAH-mov.
Yeah, his pronunciations this episode was just bad
Eyes-we-man
Pat Falloon?
Pierre Marc Bouchard
jack hughes will be part of this in couple of years
nah he’s gonna be solid just got hyped too much, kakko might tho since every retard who watched the world juniors decided to say he was better
La-fren-yere not la-fren-ye
Hi
When Valeri Nichushkin was drafted by Dallas, Jaromir Jagr said he could be the best in the world someday. Looking at it now, he has a looooooong way to go lol.
Nichushkin has finally became solid NHLer. He could become better still. Top 6 winger tho at max
Dude way too many adds in your videos