one two center duo in History

[Phil68]

Looking back now and having watched what McDavid and Drai have been doing. To me as of right now, Outside Gretzky Messier, Lemieux, Francis,

Crosby, Malkin will go down as the 3rd best one two center combo in history.

 

[RussianBum86]

Yzerman and Fedorov
Sakic and Forsberg
All four of those centers were HOF caliber players that showed up when it mattered most.
Those guys won cups, mvps, hardware, and battled it out with each other for a decade plus.
McDavid and Drai don't have the hardware yet to be considering the best 1 2 punch because they can't win when it counts.

 

[PistolPete]

Yzerman and Fedorov
Sakic and Forsberg
All four of those centers were HOF caliber players that showed up when it mattered most.
Those guys won cups, mvps, hardware, and battled it out with each other for a decade plus.
McDavid and Drai don't have the hardware yet to be considering the best 1 2 punch because they can't win when it counts.

Hockey isn't a two man sport.

 

[RussianBum86]

Hockey is a two man sport.

No but it takes leadership and perseverance to inspire your team to sacrifice everything to win. Yzerman, Sakic, Forsberg, and Fedorov had to adapt their game to win cups.

 

[BadgerBruce]

Jean Beliveau and Henri Richard.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Looking back now and having watched what McDavid and Drai have been doing. To me as of right now, Outside Gretzky Messier, Lemieux, Francis,

Crosby, Malkin will go down as the 3rd best one two center combo in history.

Crosby Malkin are ahead of Lemieux Francis. More cups and Francis is the worst of the 4.

 

[PistolPete]

No but it takes leadership and perseverance to inspire your team to sacrifice everything to win. Yzerman, Sakic, Forsberg, and Fedorov had to adapt their game to win cups.

Still, again, hockey isn't a two man sport.

Compare the rosters of Cup winning teams with teams who had top end tslent but no Cups. You'll likely find the Cup winning teams had more of thr ingredients necessary to win- such as goaltending.

There is absolutely nothing Drsisaitl nor McDavid can do about Edmonton's horrible goaltending. Their defense? What are they do about that?

And what made Florida so damn hard to beat this year? Great goaltending and scoring from multiple sources.

The paradox of your argument is if the Oilers pull off a win but McDavid and Drsisaitl play the very same, now just by merely being on a winning team they're suddenly true leaders.

 

[CapsJunkie]

Backstom and Kuznetsov not the best in history but great

 

[tarheelhockey]

Jean Beliveau and Henri Richard.

Came here to say this. In modern terms it’s like having Crosby and Yzerman down the middle.

 

[landy]

Looking back now and having watched what McDavid and Drai have been doing. To me as of right now, Outside Gretzky Messier, Lemieux, Francis,

Crosby, Malkin will go down as the 3rd best one two center combo in history.

If only McDavid and Draisaitl actually centered their own lines. They’re the fakest 1-2 ever.

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

Looking back now and having watched what McDavid and Drai have been doing. To me as of right now, Outside Gretzky Messier, Lemieux, Francis,

Crosby, Malkin will go down as the 3rd best one two center combo in history.

Just from the guys I watched (feom thw mid 90s), I think you have to include Yzerman and Fedorov. They both were exemplary 2 way players, and SF is IMO the most underrated superstar of the last 30 years. I hate the Wings, but he was just unreal.