I could talk this out for hours. And not make a final determination until Nick is finally done. What a nice debate to have. I wish the other team down the street would give us such grist for the mill (no, not the Tigs).
As of today, I still go:
1. Howe
2. Yzerman
3. Lidstrom (hold the n)
4. Lindsay
5. Sawchuk
L's qualifications will blow by Yzerman in a couple of years. But hard to argue with his intangibles. Dude damn near tore his knee apart in late 80s and mid 90s and was still money in the early 00s. Hard to argue with that!