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In Canadian sports history, few names carry the weight and reverence of Wayne Gretzky. For decades, he wasn’t just the Great ...
The Gretzky statue outside of Rogers Place, the home of Edmonton Oilers, covered with excrement - AP/Jason Franson When Gretzky was traded in 1988 from the Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings, he wept.
TNT promotes the sports legend as the voice of Canada, while hockey’s birthplace pretends he went off to sea and never came ...
There’s a Gretzky party room in a chain restaurant around the corner from his childhood home. There’s the Wayne Gretzky Parkway, a winding five-mile, four-lane thoroughfare that’s suddenly ...
That same year brought a rite of passage. Wayne Gretzky took a hit, lost some teeth, and burst into tears. His father didn’t ...
So Gretzky and his wife, Janet, cleared their schedule for about a month so Wayne would be free to follow the Capitals when Ovechkin got within a few goals of 894.
Roustan calls Gretzky a friend, and he is astounded that some would think he would ever be a traitor to his Canadian roots. “To drop Wayne Gretzky’s name into the middle of this,” says ...
President Donald Trump said that he gave Wayne Gretzky a "pass" to "pretend," they didn't know each other, as the Canadian ice hockey legend faces mounting backlash for his friendship with the ...
And now another name: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, born in Toronto, raised in Hamilton, the fourth player of the 4,800 or so who ...
As unbelievable as it sounds, Wayne Gretzky was “The Great One” way before he legitimately became the greatest NHL player of ...
In signature dramatic fashion, Alex Ovechkin scored the 894th goal of his career — and second of the game Friday night — to tie Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record.