No argument against. But truthfully, I have trouble equating his generation with Jordan onward. Same feelings in golf or football, and even baseball to a lesser extent. The old guys were great athletes and players, but I just can't believe they had the same competition the modern guys do.
Every sport is like that. It's impossible to compare generations since every 20 years athletes seem to morph into something more advanced based on newer strategies, science, training and medicine.
But it's still fun to compare.
I'm a hockey fan. Ovechkin consistently gets abut 50 goals per year in an age where scoring is super low, dmen are giants and goalies are also bigger, wear double the pads, and their goalie pads are lighter and squared off flush against the ice. Yet he can still score 50.
Time warp him to 1984 where almost every team was scoring 300 goals per year (now the best team in the league might get 300), and when the Oilers were scoring over 400 a year. You had pylon dmen who could barely skate and goalies wore half the pads and amost none were good puck handlers either to help control the puck. There were so many penalties called, every team probably got 5 PPs per game on average. And Ovechkin scores a lot on the PP
Ovechkin would get 100 goals per year easy.
If bricks like Mike Krushelnyiski can score 44 goals (which would be top 10 in modern day), pretty sure Ovechkin can get 120.
