Anderson on the same level as Messier?
I was a huge Oilers fan and saw the vast majority of their games in the eighties and there's NO WAY I could support such a statement. Anerson was OBVIOUSLY a notch lower than Messier. Gawd, Anderson would be LUCKY to be considered on par with Kurri, darn lucky. He's more like Tikkanen, with
some excellent attributes.
Anderson was at-most a 30-goal scorer on any other team in any other era, blessed to be on the most offensively talent team during the most offensively oriented era (even then his production dropped off a lot, as only once in his last seven seasons was he able to notch 25 goals or more). Clutch scorer? Fine. So was Claude Lemieux. That doesn't put Claude on par with Messier, or even Kurri.