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Originally Posted by Crowbob
Wayne Gretzky and Bobby Orr would disagree, both of whom have said my former neighbor Gordy Howe was the greatest hockey player of all time. Gretzky, Orr and Howe were selected (in that order, I think) as the top three Hockey players of all time.
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There were hundreds, probably thousands of better players. But what Paul Henderson did in 1972 was the greatest performance I have ever seen. He carries an all-star team, scored the winning goal in three straight games (in the Soviet Union), scored a hat trick in the final game, then netted the winner with 21 seconds remaining. Simply incredible, and even more so because he was just 'average'.