A statement like "Sidney Crosby is the best.....period" is the stuff of morons.
There are many exceptional players, Sid among them.
He does not differentiate himself from the others, and on any given night,or month, or season, the others shine brighter.

I realize that the Leafs are a dismal disgrace for a company that claims to care about its patrons.
And the patrons are yet more dismal.
So TO hockey writers are scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to publish.
Quick, let's put out something saying so and so is the greatest.  That will get some traction.
Not.
Fail.