Monday, October 24, 2011

Bobby Orr, Nick Lidstrom, and Greatness

The other day, I was having an argument with a person from Detroit. It was not about Justin Verlander, which is somewhat surprising. Rather, it was about Nick Lidstrom, who I would contend is one of the top five defensemen of all time—in fact, I think that at this point, there couldn’t really be contention about that. But he wanted to say that Lidstrom was number one, that he wasn’t just better than Coffey and Bourque and Harvey but, also, better than Bobby Orr. Frankly, that’s just heresy.