"I think (Crosby is) still obviously one of the best in the world, but he's not really getting the credit he deserves right now. A lot of the attention is on the younger guys, but if you look at the details of the game, and full 200 feet, he's by far the best player in the league, him and (Nathan MacKinnon).
He's not as flashy as some of the higher-end guys. He's direct. He plays safe but he plays hard and direct. He plays a winning game. I think he's learned how to play the right way that you need to play in playoffs to have success. He plays [like] that the entire season. He's not trying to beat somebody one-on-one every time he gets the puck. He tries to find open space and find the open man, he moves it quick.
The young guys are getting the attention now. There's a lot of flashy young guys coming to the league, but if you look at the attention that Bedard's getting compared to Sid, they're not on the same level right now. Bedard's a (heck) of a player for his age, but Sid's one of the best to ever play the game, one of the top couple players in the league now and Bedard probably gets more attention than anybody."