Dave Dameshek

That's exactly where I was going to go.

Well, you know what?

Let's play that game.

I love playing what the if and let's do it.

An NHL edition of it right now.

Let's trade.

the best player of the millennium, all due respect to McJesus.

Again, scoreboard tells the tale.

Sidney Crosby, one half of the guys who saved the sport, saved the league near the turn of the millennium.

Sidney Crosby, let's take him at the height of his powers.

Let's say 2012-ish.

Let's send him to 1983 in exchange for 1983 edition Wayne Gretzky to modern times.

How's that go for the two players?

Yes, when you do this game, when you do an exercise like this, yes, the modern player would be better than somebody from 30 years ago.

But as much as we can sort of blur that, those elements, like, you know.

Famously, like Mario Lemieux, for instance, would say, oh, the season's about to start.

I better stop smoking those nails and eating the fries on the side of my sandwich.

Literally, that was his training regimen to get right.

That wouldn't be the case in the year of the Lord, 2026.

I think he, you know, even the generational differences, strength and all of that, I think he would overwhelm with his wheels, first of all.