Yes. He is clearly the second best player after McDavid since about 5 years ago. The second best player of a generation is always a generational talent.
He carried the Tampa teams to cups. Yes, Tampa did have elite goaltending and defense but they didn't have an amazing 2nd forward. Stamkos is alright, but he was injured during a cup run and generally ineffective during the playoffs. As a result, Kucherov had to put the team on his back.
This is tricky. Because I feel canadians always leans to make their own homeboys to be generational players. And generational is generational, it isnt a couple of them.
Its a high bar for a generational.
For me I doubt Howe is generational, he was not consistenly leading scoring titles or such, he was more of a consistency top 10 in scoring and had longevity.
Orr, yes. But one could argue that Tretiak was generational, and so Kharlamov.
Was Roy generational? Hasek carried a team more than Roy did. So I make a call of canadian bias there.
Gretzky, Lemieux, Orr, Crosby, McDavid - yes, all generational. And so is Ovie, and maybe Kucherov. Kucherov is a beast, maybe he needs just two acoring wingers that puts in enough to make him surpass 150 points. Then...