What do I even respond to here? You read my post about how it’s a different timeline if Ovechkin plays the lost 2004-2005 season and you come back with him being drafted first by Pittsburgh in the 2004 draft which occurred before the season was canceled to begin with…then double down with Pittsburgh still landing Crosby in 2005, even though they won that pick in our reality with special procedures implemented specifically because of the lost season that would have been played in this scenario.
As to your second point, you demonstrated quite well that you don’t grasp what I’m saying, even though the core of it is a pretty basic concept that most are now familiar with due to its heavy use in modern films (Butterfly Effect, String Theory, Multiverse, etc).
Much like I don’t know how it all plays out, you don’t also don’t know happens in a reality that unfolds differently than what we’ve experienced. What seems clear though is that with Ovechkin having a very healthy successful career and knocking on Gretzky’s goal record door, I don’t see much of a point lamenting what else could have been, when the odds are that this is one of the highest marked simulations out there.
What I struggle to grasp is why anyone doesn’t realize that going left at the traffic light rather than straight one day can set you down a completely different path.
