These types of statements get very tiresome. Athletes do have more avenues to high-tech training today than they did in past years, but does that necessarily make them better? Some people like to point to how track times are much better today than in years past. Conditioning may be part of it, but most experts will tell you that the biggest reasons for better track times are better running surfaces and better shoes. What baseball player has hit the most HRs that traveled over 450 feet? Some steroid-inflated tree from the current era? No. A player that retired over 70 years ago. Babe Ruth hit 245 of those massive shots -- more than twice as much as anyone else in baseball history.
Go ahead and ask some of those "old guys" and I'm pretty sure that they would tell you that Tony Hrkac would have little trouble dominating college hockey today. He would have been a great NHL player if he had drank a little less. I'm also pretty sure that "old-time" players like Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemeuix would have little trouble dominating today. Today's goaltenders are not some evolved group of super freaks compared to those "old" goaltenders, but they do have a lot more padding to help block shots. And there was organized defense back then. There are even rumors that players knew how to read and write back then.
Here is an answer to an earlier question -- the BC Connection was from the 1978-79 season. Kevin Maxwell was the center, Cary Eades was the RW, and Mark Taylor was the LW (he moved to C the following year).
The DOT line has been pretty exciting, and I can think of about five other lines that would be near the top, but the Hrkac Circus tops the list.
