Dave Dameshek
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And like you say, I don't think it's owed to modern training regimens so much as it is just what the hockey gods gave him, which is those Earl Campbell-sized thighs.
If you've ever been around Crosby in person.
It's striking.
You're like, my God, your lower half is something inhuman.
I don't know what you got going.
I'm not working blue when I say that, by the way, about his lower half.
I'm just talking about his two legs.
That's it.
Working blue.
I think he would light it up.
The defensemen of that age would not know what to do with somebody with that speed and that skill.
But the other side that really is intriguing, and you say, DJ, you're going to get killed for it,
I think it's pretty straightforward.
There is no makeup of modern training routes, weights, and eating and all that that would get Wayne Gretzky up to speed to be competitive in this age.
I'm not saying he would be a bum.
I think he would be somewhere stats line along the line of Adam Oates.
I don't think he could dominate the sport given the way he was built, his wheels, and all the rest of it.
How say you?
I disagree with that.
I disagree with that.