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Mario Lemieux was right there with Gretzky if not for his horrific illness
Alexander Ovechkin scores 800! Chasing Gretzky’s 894 goal record
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SmoothOperator88
Your friendly neighborhood coli poster
And bad injury luck.
If Lemieux stayed healthy and didn't have to step away from the game a few times it's the hockey version of Messi vs CR7.
Speaking of forgotten hyped up youth players: whatever became of that Djokovic kid in tennis? He once had a chance to really challenge Nadal and Fed at one of the Slams. Hope he didn't fall back into obscurity and poverty like the guy who beat Mayweather in the Olympics.LOL@ nikkas on the Coli asking about Crosby like "whatever happened to that one kid"
3 rings and MVP'S guys
I haven't really followed tennis like that since Agassi retired. Not sure what I've missed.
Patrick Kane
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Oh he definitely already is - record or no record. I think he hits 900 goals and calls it a career once he breaks 894
Going for 801 tonight
he is
wayne gretzky never scored more than 38 goals after 30
ovechkin has done it 4 times and would have done it a 5th if it wasn't for a covid shortned season
LexDiamonds
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They should rename the Rocket Richard after Alex Ovechkin
staticshock
Veteran
In basketball you can argue Wilt, Kobe, MJ, Bron, Kareem or Magic as the GOAT
can’t do that in the NHL. Nobody is touching Wayne. It’s a lot of elite guys who’ve played but Gretzky is in a tier all by himself
Patrick Kane
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His nickname was literally The Great One
Mario Lemieux wasn’t better than Gretzky but he was CLOSE and if he wasn’t injured and didn’t get cancer and fukking stopped smoking cigarettes through his career he would’ve been the closest second. The gap between Mario and Wayne at their peak was very close. Mario was legitimately unstoppable in the clutch and grab/duck puck era and he was still putting up unbelievable numbers.
Renegade47
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i read his wikipedia page in disbelief like wtf was this nikka on?
the goat of goats
They won’t rocket Richard first player to score 50 and get 500 goals
Top 10 scorers during Gretzky's 6 best seasons 
His nickname was literally The Great One
Mario Lemieux wasn’t better than Gretzky but he was CLOSE and if he wasn’t injured and didn’t get cancer and fukking stopped smoking cigarettes through his career he would’ve been the closest second. The gap between Mario and Wayne at their peak was very close. Mario was legitimately unstoppable in the clutch and grab/duck puck era and he was still putting up unbelievable numbers.
Lemeiux had size and power
Gretzky was only like 6 feet 165 lbs
Top 10 scorers during Gretzky's 6 best seasons
Kyrie and Coffey were on gretzkys team as well
I could have got 50 goals playing with Gretzky back then that good
Crazy thing lol he has more assists than they have goals and assists
Every time the playoffs come around I wanna try to get into it, because I hear so much about playoff hockey, and last time I got put onto a sport I don’t think I fw was futbol a solid decade ago. I still fw it to this day. As much as I hear about hockey, I know there has to be something to it other than fades.
I really just gotta learn the exact basic rules of the game like icing, their version of offsides, etc. Soccer I learned by playing. I’m not playing hockey
How does this stack up to Greyzky’s assist+goals thing? I heard so much growing up about him truly being the furthest ahead of his competition when it comes to North American sports GOATs
I really just gotta learn the exact basic rules of the game like icing, their version of offsides, etc. Soccer I learned by playing. I’m not playing hockey
How does this stack up to Greyzky’s assist+goals thing? I heard so much growing up about him truly being the furthest ahead of his competition when it comes to North American sports GOATs