VERSUS SIDNEY CROSBY VS WAYNE GRETZKY BY WILL GRAVES SportsZone An Imprint of Abdo Publishing abdopublishing com
INTRODUCTION Wayne Gretzky and Sidney Crosby are similar players But they played in very different eras When Gretzky was dominating the National Hockey League NHL in the 1980s and early 90s the game was played at a much faster pace Crosby's NHL today is much more defense oriented That makes it difficult to use statistics to compare these players But it's also not fair to limit a discussion of their greatness to mere numbers Both legends mean much more to the game than that Which one was better It's an argument without a right or wrong answer We'll tell their stories and lay out the facts
