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Known as the Great One for more than his dominance on the ice, Wayne Gretzky proved that good guys do finish first. The Canadian, known as the greatest hockey player of all time, is now a naturalized American citizen. Living in the United States. Let's take a listen to his story. Although Canada is not a monarchy, this man is considered their prince.
He dominated a sport for 20 years without any of the physical skills needed to even play in the National Hockey League. Yet he is known as the Great One. A three-on-one Edmonton break back to Kretzky. He scored! He's hockey's biggest star.
and a Canadian hero. but he's also the husband of an American. He married actress Janet Jones in 1988 and became a U. S. citizen soon after.
Wayne Gretzky, born January twenty-sixth, nineteen sixty-one. played twenty seasons in the National Hockey League. He is the leading scorer in NHL history. with more goals and more assists than any other player. Think about this.
He tallied more assists than any other player has scored in total points. That's goals and assists combined. And he is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season. A feat he accomplished four times. Bretzky was born and raised in Brantford, Ontario.
Each year, when the cold set in, his backyard was converted into a private hockey rink. Day, night, and countless pre-dawns, a frail, undersized boy practiced while his father watched through the kitchen window. Drinking coffee and issuing drills that looked like they came more from a chess instructor than a hockey coach. Pure talent and desire lifted the prodigy to organized hockey at the age of six. From there, It was a short leap for full coast-to-coast fame.
Here's Gretzky's biographer, Rick Riley. He lived a life like none of us can imagine. He could skate before he could walk, and he became this sort of human icon in Canada. At 10 years old, he was swamped by other 10-year-olds for autographs. By 13, he was on National Hockey Night in Canada.
So he's grown up sort of like John F. Kennedy Jr., he's been the Prince of Canada. How could this young kid achieve such success in a country where every kid is born with skates on their feet? Take a look at these numbers given to us by Jim Taylor of the Calgary Sun. In his nine and ten year old year, he scored 195 goals.
And the people in the town said, Yeah, well, Whitley gets in the next year. He'll never score 195 again. And they were right. The next year he scored 378. From an early age, the Great One earned his nickname not just for his on-ice superiority, but also for his off-ice humility.
Here's his childhood buddy, Brian Rossetto. I used to come home and I'd score a goal and I'd be doing cartwheels and He'd come home and they'd win 13 to 1 and I'd say, how'd you do? He says, we won. This is you getting goals? Yeah.
How many? Eleven. And that's the way he was. When Gretzky turned 14, he began playing in the minor leagues with guys who were in their 20s, and he dominated there too. Here's a kid that weighed 170 pounds soaking weight.
If you got into an arm wrestling competition, you could probably drag a couple of girls out of the stands that would beat him. Guts was not that fast. In fact, he was slow. and not that strong. In fact, he was weak.
You know, and not that big. Fact he was tiny. He was always dead last in a conditioning drill. He benched a buck forty. I mean, you almost don't need barbells.
You know, just do the bar. I said, this guy looks like an anorexic rock star. He's the least athletic looking person. These little pipe cleaner arms. But there was something about him that he just had this sixth sense.
He knew people. He could see shadows. He could feel movement. He said it was almost like having deja vu all the time. The average guy in the league thinks one play ahead.
The superstars think two plays ahead. Nigretzki thinks Shriplay is a hand. In nineteen seventy eight, He signed with the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association. where he briefly played before being traded to the Edmonton Oilers. As an Oiler, he established many scoring records and led his team to four Stanley Cup championships.
Then Wayne met wife Janet. at a Los Angeles Lakers game in 1987. and on July 16th, 1988, married in a lavish ceremony at Saint Joseph's Basilica. that was broadcast live across Canada. Immediately after the wedding, Gretzky received his American citizenship.
Just days after that, on August 9th, He was traded to the Los Angeles Kings. It's the biggest trade in sports history. He wasn't a rookie. He wasn't. over the hill.
He was in his prime. His trait to the Kings had an immediate impact on the team's performance. eventually leading them to the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals. and he is credited with popularizing hockey across the United States. Let's take a look back at his trade to the Los Angeles Kings.
Canada lost their Prince. But America received the sun. Here in Los Angeles, nobody cares about anything, let alone hockey. But all of a sudden, the right people were going and it was the end thing to do. We were bringing Ronald Reagan before the games to give us pep talks.
I mean, Sylvester Stone came before the game to give us pep talks. What an impact it made on this team. The sale of jackets, caps, jerseys went from dead last to number one of all sports teams. He reinvented the Los Angeles Kings and got Hollywood and media corporations involved and interested in hockey, which has carried over until today. Wayne going to Los Angeles not only saved hockey in California, it saved the NHL.
Gretzky played briefly for the St. Louis Blues before finishing his career with the New York Rangers. His retirement in the Big Apple was a heavy-hearted goodbye. that was felt across the world. Here's a look back.
Yeah. Looking Yarry Curry. Shirley to Gretzky! Scored! He did it!
He did it! The greatest goal scorer in National Hockey League history is Wayne Gretzky! Gretzky is the babe Ruth. of his sport. Gretzky as an individual stood above his contemporaries to an even greater extent Then did Michael Jordan.
If you compare a statistic to any other sport, I mean, you know, it would have, somebody would have to come next year and hit 95 home runs or something like that. This is definitely the greatest player that ever played the game. You could almost see a smile come on his face the minute he stepped on the ice, because that's where he could be Wayne Gretzky. do what he enjoyed the most. I think what Gretz did for hockey Can never be forgotten.
He changed the game. He gave it grace, he gave it space, he gave it speed, he gave it artistry. The further he gets from us the more we'll see. What he did would never be accomplished again. He basically took a league on his shoulders and carried them to a place that nobody.
And I mean nobody 20 years ago would ever have thought hockey would be right now. He was the last. Hockey player. You came. from the game.
That was part of us. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll now say these words for the last time. ever in this building. Hockey fans, tonight's first star, number ninety nine. Wait, bro, speed up.
I've always said that. And I'm not the first person to say this, but... He's always been a better person than he has been a hockey player. when you really get to know. then you know why they call him the Great One.
The NHL retired his jersey number 99 league wide. making him the only player to receive this honor. He's made the record book obsolete. said former Minnesota general manager Lou Nanny. His only point of reference.
is himself. done a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Gregg Hengler. And indeed, there was no one ever like him. There may never be one like him again. By the age of ten he's signing autographs in Canada as a hockey star.
And then, of course, that moved to the LA Kings, which saved hockey in America. and indeed made hockey in America. I love that line. Canada lost their prince. America received our son.
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