Dave Dameshek

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.

He just wasn't as viscerally dynamic as Mario Lemieux was.

Yeah, you know, that's the other sad thing that he and his son, Sidney Crosby, have in common, that they missed giant chunks of their prime because of injuries.

And where would they be?

That's the big one against the Bruins.

When the Bruins take him down, inexplicably.

A couple things, fellas.

Since we're talking to two guys sitting in Boston, you're the right people to answer this question.