Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Douglas Gretzky CCis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey Leaguefor four teams from 1979 to 1999. Nicknamed "The Great One", he has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters, players, and the NHL itself. He is the leading scorer in NHL history, with more goals and more assists than any other player. He scored more assists than any other player scored total points,...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth26 January 1961
CityBrantford, Canada
CountryCanada
We need to get guys re-energized and refocused. This should be the greatest week of their lives ... they should be having fun.
Todd feels worse about what happened than anybody, ... He has been punished and served his time.
Blake takes a nice shot, and I think that changed the momentum of the hockey game. We just couldn't find our way back into it.
When Mess came in to the league from the WHA at 17 he was kind of raw,
Every game is a stepping stone to getting to the final game. We had a really good first period and all of a sudden the tide turned.
As I said seven days ago, it doesn't involve me. I'm not involved. I've said it for seven days, it's over and done with.
At the end of the day, everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
There is so much parity in the game, there are so many teams that are stronger, and it is much tougher to get 400 wins now. There is such a fine line between winning and losing, so to accomplish something like that in this era is pretty special.
We've got a long way to go, let's be honest. We know we've got an uphill battle, but nobody's going to quit.
My hat goes off to both of them. It was a heavyweight fight on both sides. ... I didn't think it was going to end.
Rick worked with him a little bit and showed him a couple of things. It was a nice deflection, nice goal, and that's the way you're going to beat a team like that. You're going to get kind of a weird goal, crash the net. Fancy plays aren't going to work against that team; they're too good.
She was a person who stayed back and didn't really enjoy the limelight. But in our house, she was the limelight.
Obviously, you feel bad. It's a situation that obviously concerns the organization at this point, so other than that, hopefully things work out.
Obviously you don't replace a guy like Mario, not only what he does on the ice but his presence on the locker-room, how much the players respect him and how much they look up to him,