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Mcdavid is an anomaly in the sense that I don't know if we've ever had the best player in the world also be the undisputed fastest. Crosby and Lemieux both had/have incredible strength on the puck and probably the hardest to stop possession against. Gretzky had the ridiculous hockey iq. Orr was extremely agile and could make people look ridiculous dodging hits in the neutral zone. They didn't have the insane straight-line speed that Mcdavid has where one second he is skating alongside a defender and two steps later he's on a breakaway. That sort of skill was seen more with guys like Bure or Federov who were both amazing players but never "best in the world" status.