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Originally Posted by Detroiter
Better at hockey. Lidstrom was horrible in that playoffs. He was on the ice for almost every single one of Edmonton's goals. Lidstrom gets caught out of position alot. Those players didn't have the best seasons of their career with Lidstrom. They've all had better seasons when they didn't play with Lidstrom.
The bottomline,
Favorite - Lidstrom
Best by far and away, it's really not even close - Yzerman
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Lidstrom doesn't get caught out of position any more than any other player that plays 35 minutes a game. You can't be out of position "a lot" and have a plus 40 rating.
He has bad games like everyone else. I saw a Wings/Predators game this season and one of the Preds' forwards carried the puck in, right at Nick. He deeked him, turned him around and Lidstrom fell on his ass. The Preds scored on that play. That type of thing doesn't happen to Nick very often. Staying in position and taking the puck away from the opponents are the things he does as well as any defenseman I've ever seen.