MadLuke
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Reading the message just above, what would you say Crosby hype was around 2005, after his last junior season run and scoring 6 goals in 6 games at the WJC as a pre-draft player that year while a lot of "old" junior star was there because of the lock-out ?
Would you agree that 2 Art Ross was not living up to the hype ?
Would you agree that the level of separation under a full season (not per game) with the best competition was under the level of hype ?
2 Rocket was maybe a bit over-performed, a bet that he would never score 50 was made and reasonable, the career as a whole in some way was a bit over-performing, 4 cups finals, 3 win in that salary cap era, I imagine Vegas line could have been 2.5 cup, 3.5 finals easily, it is at the minimum a mix bag in term of living up to the hype.
+200 playoff points, also, I think that matching expectation for his career nicely.
Obviously anything about Gretzky was unreasonable and maybe false expectation of people pushing copies, but Esposito-Jagr-Lemieux 5-6 Art Ross career was not, that definetly was the expectation and McDavid just did it.
One could say without injury that what Crosby would have close, winning 2013 for sure and one or 2 more in the 11-12 seasons... but he did not.
