I agree with you here. Again, we may get crucified for it, but Lidstrom to me was an excellent technical defender but not much else. He was very sound positionally, did all the right things, played smart, etc. Leech had all the offensive capabilites, but was never in the spotlight like Coffey, Stevens, Bourque, Darien Hatcher* (to me was a physical dynamo with the Stars - was severly underrated! were
I feel like I always wanted Cam Fowler to be similar to a Brian Leech. Both were terrific skaters, but Cam never really achieved anything more than that. Leech really did do it all. Skate, Shoot, PPQB, strong leader.. just overshadowed by Mess, Gretzky, maybe Richter?