TORONTO — One hundred years. One hundred players.
What a time to be celebrating all that is and has been National Hockey League talent.
It starts, as all hockey lists must start, with Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky. Best defenceman ever. Best forward ever.
They aren’t one and two as much as they are 1 and 1a. And the debate is like all great sporting debates — there is no definitive answer as to who has been the best player in NHL history. That’s a personal choice, based on age and opinion and all kinds of biases and how you view the game and whatever prisms you might happen to view the sport through.