In his prime Backstrom was the playmaker. Ovechkin has always been an individualist puck-eating player. I just said that Ovechkin could be considered as superstar ("Kane ? Ovechkin ? Panarin ? Kucherov ? Yes he can and it's not forbidden to think that they are superstars). I'm just saying that Ovechkin isn't better than Panarin, Kucherov or Kane and that he never had McDavid and Crosby's level.
Lafrenière didn't even start to NHL. As already mentioned, it"s useless to say conclusively that Lafrenière will have the same level as Hall because their performances in CHL are similar. No one predicted that Draisaitl, Carlsson, Pastrnak or Panarin would become superstars. Nobody had planned the career of Brady, Jordan, Federer or Cristiano Ronaldo at 18.
Lafrenière may become better than Ovechkin or may become worse than Cole Perfetti. All experts repeat again and again that the draft isn't an exact science. In general, fans predict what they want to see.