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Where do they start their career? Same team?

I'd love to see a prime Sergei Makarov in the NHL to see what it would have been like
 
I'd like to see a big old clap bomb from Al Iafrate using modern stick technology.
 
I’d be interested to see how guys like Rob Schremp or Brett Sterling or Corey Locke or one of these little skilled guys that absolutely ripped up amateurs hockey but were 10 years ahead of their time, would do in this smaller, faster, skill league.
 
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I'll keep my list to non-Capitals.

Brett Hull. Would love to see him go toe-to-toe with Ovi for best one-timer.
Pavel Bure. So much fun to watch and would be the perfect winger in today's NHL.
Eric Lindros. Could he have reached his potential in a time where guys aren't allowed to head hunt without consequence? How good could he be in today's NHL?
Brian Leetch. His parents lived in my hometown so he was always one of my favorite players growing up and I never really appreciated how good he was since I was a little young to appreciate everything he brought to the table.
 
This comes down to three players for me:

1. Mario Lemieux
2. Peter Forsberg
3. Pavel Bure

Mario because he was my favorite player in NHL to watch play--it was like watching The Beatles vs. a bar cover band on most nights--Mario was that great. I'm of the opinion, if he entered the league today, he would put the NHL through a shredder, based on his size, skill and hockey sense. He would train and eat like today's players and his physical gifts were just better than anyone...ever.

Forsberg would be an absolute monster today. It wasn't "that long ago" that he was at the end of his line, playing with busted feet, and still giving a young Sidney Crosby a run for his money when they matched up head-to-head. Forsberg's wizardry would be on full display in today's game and he would bring a physical, nasty element that other megastars couldn't. The best way I could describe Forsberg in today's game would be if you took Patrick Kane's hands, added it to Matthew Tkachuk's physicality and viciousness... then put it all in David Pastrnak's body.

Simply put: Bure was tailor-made for today's NHL. He could fly as fast as McDavid and his goal scoring mitts were close to Ovechkin's (or at the worst, Patrik Laine's). He looked like a Hollywood movie star and everything about him was electric. Outside of Lemieux and sometimes Lindros, Jagr and Forsberg, nobody lifted fans out of their seats like Bure in the 90's. He'd challenge for the Rocket Richard annually and likely the Art Ross, based on the way they are letting the talented players perform without obstruction these days.
 
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AlexBrovechkin8 said:
Eric Lindros. Could he have reached his potential in a time where guys aren't allowed to head hunt without consequence? How good could he be in today's NHL?
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I thought of Lindros but he's one player I actually think would be less effective today. He was far too violent for today's game--he'd either miss 20 games a year due to suspension or he'd be in prison for decapitating a player on the ice. Eric was an absolutely animal. Quite honestly, I've never seen another player like him. I guess Gordie--but Lindros was worse. Messier? Yeah, Mess was a mean dude, but Lindros was 6-5, 240 and could do significantly more damage with his body. The scary thing about Lindros was that his snap shot was harder than most players' slap shots lol.
 
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rt said:
I’d be interested to see how guys like Rob Schremp or Brett Sterling or Corey Locke or one of these little skilled guys that absolutely ripped up amateurs hockey but were 10 years ahead of their time, would do in this smaller, faster, skill league.
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Shremp was slow as molasses unfortunately. In today's game he'd be obliterated.
 
Boxscore said:
I thought of Lindros but he's one player I actually think would be less effective today. He was far too violent for today's game--he'd either miss 20 games a year due to suspension or he'd be in prison for decapitating a player on the ice. Eric was an absolutely animal. Quite honestly, I've never seen another player like him. I guess Gordie--but Lindros was worse. Messier? Yeah, Mess was a mean dude, but Lindros was 6-5, 240 and could do significantly more damage with his body. The scary thing about Lindros was that his snap shot was harder than most players' slap shots lol.
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Good point, Lindros was a menace on the ice. I do wonder if he would have toned it down a bit in today’s NHL after a few mandated sessions of eating nachos in the suites though. Tom Wilson comes to mind as someone who toned it down and became more selective on when to lay the boom but became a better all around player as a result.
 
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I've seen Gretzky play, but I'm too young to have been able to consciously appreciate Gretzky's career. I just got into the tailend of the Oilers dominance but man would I have loved to follow his career from beginning to end with a fresh set of eyes that makes me appreciate the greatest player to ever lace the skates.
 
Lindros would obviously play to the standards set today. He would absolutely dominate the league.

Giroux - Lindros - Voracek

Good heavens.
 
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This should be more the lines of this thread. Restart a players career to put them in a better position to succeed. You can add legends you’d love to see play play in this era.

I’ll keep banging the Yakupov drum that everyone keeps mentioning. Would be fine with a restart and he being developed in a decent support player.
 
I would like to have seen Andre Lacroix play his whole career in the NHL. HOF candidate for sure. Bad timing for a great player.
 
Lindros or Forberg from the past for me.

Todays players I’d pick Bergeron and ban Randy Jones from making a comeback while I’m at it. People forget but he was a skilled guy that had some wheels early on.
 
My mind goes to players who were mishandled or rushed to the NHL . I’d go back and make Galchenyuk spend the 12/13 year junior all the way through and maybe in the A the next year
 
Ilya Kovalchuk

Dont start him in Atlanta and put him on a team he can say with for his career and be as good as he could have been
 
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