authentic
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Disagree on the first two, as someone who is old enough to be around for Hull, and know how Richard was regarded in his day. There was always a massive controversy as to whether Howe or Richard was better. Lidstrom I am less sure about ...
Lidstrom I'd say was definitely not. He was consistently the best defenseman for a number of years on a stacked team, but during his time there were a few who were around his level if not even better at their best like Pronger. There were several forwards who were considered better players than Lidstrom during his entire career, heck he was rarely considered the best player on his team even between Yzerman, Fedorov and Datsyuk. That to me makes it a no brainer that he wasn't generational. He wasn't even the best Swedish player from his generation.