Over the weekend Steve Simmons, everyone’s favorite Canadian hockey columnist, used the opening section of his weekly notes column to ponder whether or not Sidney Crosby or Jean Beliveau is currently the fifth greatest hockey player of all time behind the hockey Mount Rushmore of Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Bobby Orr, and Gordie Howe.
(Howe would not make my hockey Mount Rushmore, but that is another argument for another day).
The jumping off point was Crosby recently celebrating his 32nd birthday (32?! My God, where are we going?) and where he stands among the NHL’s greats.