BenchBrawl
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I don't remember writing this anywhere else but to you. If it's not the case, then I apologize.
Post number 121 , page 5 , this thread , bottom
Apologies accepted
I don't remember writing this anywhere else but to you. If it's not the case, then I apologize.
Post number 121 , page 5 , this thread , bottom
Apologies accepted
It's actually Post #121, page 7, this thread, top!
... Yep, my apologies
On my computer it's page 5 , we just started page 7 with those 2 posts , I guess the ''post by page'' limit is not the same
And the ''bottom'' stood for bottom of your post lol
I should sleep more.I won't...will regret it later on in my life...oh well
I'll be someone a taco I know who Bugg is planning on taking with his 3 picks!
I'd be ecstatic if I was Zamboni Mania.
So is our deal vetoed?
Yes.
I'd pick right now, because I think it's pretty obvious who is at the top of our list...Aki Berg...but I want to just make sure ZM doesn't have something else going on
The shortlist he sent me was Wade Belak, Jeff Finger and Chad Kilger, so I think you'll have to talk to him
Now I can finally say it:
With all due respect to EB, I had a bigger "wtf?" moment when he picked Doug Harvey #4 than I did when markrander picked Mario Lemieux #3 in the last draft.
(Of course, I was biased last draft, as I was the one getting Gordie Howe at 4, so maybe that's it).
I almost picked Lemieux at 3 , I actually wrote the post with his picture but clicked on the ''X'' in the corner of the page before posting and re-considered
I have a question , how do we pick the coaches?
I thought it was going to be Gretzky, then Lemieux, then Howe for sure.
The general consensus here is that Lemieux is #4 and Gretzky/Orr/Howe are 1-3 in any order. I drafted Gordie Howe last time, and if you look at the profile I made of him (mainly quotes from studies of other posters), you can see that his offensive dominance over peers is statistically equal Lemieux's dominance over non-Gretzky peers. And of course, Howe kills Lemieux in intangibles and longevity.
Lemieux finished 4th in both HOH Top 100 lists and was voted 4th by the majority of participants. THN never released their voting for their 1998 Top 100 list, but they did say that 1-3 were very close and #4 was practically a consensus for Lemieux.
This isn't the majority opinion, but I do think Lemieux was better offensively than Howe because I think he faced a deeper talent pool, at least in terms of offensive talent, and because Howe "fell back to the pack" as he got older and/or the talent pool recovered from the effects of World War 2. But even so, everything else Howe brings more than makes up for the small advantage Lemieux has in peak offense, in my opinion.