Given Sidney Crosby will skate in his 125th NHL game following Wednesday's all-star game, I've been working this week on a comparison of Crosby and his peers at that mark.

The results have just hit the web at Globe on Hockey.

N.B. Comments at Globe Sports have undergone a revision process, and will now go immediately onto the site — something that hopefully will stimulate conversation a bit better than the old system. You'll still need to register, but once you're in, you're in.

UPDATE Eric Duhatschek has an excellent yarn on Crosby for tomorrow's Globe and Mail that is up online now. There are also some great statistical comparisons in the paper edition for the best 125-game starts in NHL history, and not surprisingly, Crosby's right up there.

It's unbelievable how well he can keep a play alive. The skill this guy has, to go through, around, set up, is amazing. He's got five offices. How the hell do you defend against him?

— San Jose Sharks director of scouting Tim Burke