Lemieux has quit at age 31 with plenty of hockey left. That is what everyone is saying. Come back in a few years, it is said, and every team will need to have found a way to stop the maturing superstar - or someone just like him. You are Jeane Dixon. You make your prediction.
Goals are up.
Speed is back. Passing is back. Mario is back. Eric is gone. You are dismissed as a quack and roundly ignored.