If Ovi passes Gretzky in goals scored all time...does it put his name up with Jerry Rice and Lebron James as the greatest athlete in his respective sport?
Posted Jan 4, 2019, 9:11 PM UTC
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I’d begin considering Ovi the greatest athlete ever, tbh. If you put a hockey player in any other sport, they might not be great but they wouldn’t flat out suck. Put any other athlete on ice and 99% of them would flop.
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Yeah Alex Semin would make an amazing boxer.
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He’d be better at boxing than Jalen Ramsey would be an NHL player
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Maybe I can say Jordan and Rice as the greatest single impact in terms of points responsible for
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Kareem Abdul Jabbar has the most points scored in the NBA
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I know I'm talking KNOWN impact. Most casual fans hear MJ not Kareem
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Okay even if you dont..the question still stands
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If he continues to post 40+ goals well into his 30s then I'd consider it but this really is a silly argument imo. There is way too many things in which an athlete can succeed in their sport.
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Absolutely
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He'd have to be, considering how much more difficult it is to score these days.
That being said, he isn't going to break the record, but that's okay. He will most likely be in the top 5 all time.
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I love Ovi, but it wasn't just scoring that defined Gretzky's career, look at that man's assists. Ovechkin may be right there with Gretzky if it happens, but he doesn't pass him as the greatest just by scoring more goals...
I wanted to edit my post but I guess I cant. Okay what if Ovi is like Curry and Gretzky is Lebron? You know
He will definitely reach the top tier legendary status (Gretzky, Howe, Richard) in this sport IF he is able to pull it off. Some could easily argue he is the greatest of this generation, especially if he wins a few more Cups along the way to the scoring title...
I still say that if goalies today wore the same size pads as they did in Gretzky's day, Ovi would already have passed him. There is a lot less to shoot at these days.
Is this post implying that LeBron is better than Jordan? Nah.
Dude no. It's easy to say that Lebron is the better OVERALL player. But I'm talking impact. Substitute the names all you want I really dont care. The lebron and Jordan thing has nothing to do with premise of this post.
There's also how impactful you feel like goals scored is versus many other advanced stats. Gretzky leads the league all time in goals. Ron Francis leads the league all time in assist. Everyone knows Gretzky as the "great one" but you don't hear Francis' name in talks like that, yet he leads league all time in an important statistic. I'd say to a degree, Francis was incredibly impactful to every team he played for and then captained.
Edit: excuse me, Francis is 2nd all time in assist behind Gretzky.
Well I think you're gonna have to look at the rest of the league. Crosby is passing Ovechkin in points with 100+ less games played and McDavid is on pace to maybe toast both of them. Really need to see how Ovi and Sid play out the rest of their careers and then check back on McDavid in his early 30s.