Dave Dameshek

I think McDavid pops.

When you watch the Oilers play, you think this is the fastest human beings have ever been on skates, and he blows past all of them.

It's it's remarkable to see.

But the the cross sports analogies that I always make for McDavid versus Crosby are like McJesus is sort of like coming off the Olympics, like watching the Giants slalom going super fast.

And he just he gets around those gates before they even know what hit him.

And he's wending his way through them.

That doesn't lend itself to playoff success.

Crosby is more of a NASCAR, whether it's the driver or the car itself.

He's more than happy to bonk off of you and go through you and around you and all the rest of it.

That does lend itself to springtime hockey.

But that's a super interesting point you make.

What is the greatest difference between the best player in his sport and the second best?

Gretzky, for what it's worth, empirically was not that.

That was Mario Lemieux.

When he jumped over the boards every time onto the ice, you were aware of him.

Every single shift, everybody on both teams was, everybody in the stands was.

That wasn't the Gretzky effect.

It was more sort of like at the end of the game, like, how'd Gretzky have four points there?

That was weird, right?

He was a points accumulator, which isn't to knock him.