Connor McDavid is a rarity, a prospect so gifted that he can be compared to Wayne Gretzky with a straight face. He is a prospect so talented, in fact, that even Gretzky tacitly acknowledged the comparison.
“He’s as good as I’ve seen in the last 30 years,” Gretzky told Postmedia's Joanne Ireland (via the National Post).
Gretzky is remembered by hockey as the Great One, and his exploits in a different era of the game are going to be hard for any individual to match. That hasn’t stopped the hockey world from looking, though. McDavid is the latest in a short list of players hailed as the Next One, who, along with Mario Lemieux (the Magnificent One and a contemporary of Gretzky's), received massive attention for years leading up to their draft dates.
McDavid has been compared to Gretzky, and he’s also been compared to the players who have been compared to Gretzky. The Hockey Writers’ Mark Scheig, for example, argues that McDavid is even better than current NHL star Sidney Crosby:
At the end of the day, both Crosby and McDavid are superior talents. Bu ...
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How Connor McDavid Stacks Up Against the All-Time Greats
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