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
I'm truly honored to be the first person to appear on the Campbell's Soup can. I intend to score a lot of points this year to help the Rangers and to feed the hungry.
I'm happy for Todd, ... He worked his rear-end off he was at every meeting and invested his own money and his own time. I hope this does great, because he's put a lot of time and energy into it. My son has seen this movie 21 times.
I'll be honest with you, when I was 22, 23, 24, I never thought I'd be a coach in the NHL. But I'm excited about the challenge . . . . The last couple of weeks I've been following my son's baseball team around and I kind of got the itch to coach, as silly as that sounds.
It was a hard fought game, our guys played a tough game. They're a team that plays really hard and our guys really came to work tonight.
It looked like he cheated a little to his glove side, which left his stick side a little bit open. We talked about it a little bit on the bench. Usually we don't talk about it but this time we did.
That second goal sort of broke our back. Lenny probably would like to have that one back and keep it a 1-0 game. The intensity level from their team was a lot higher tonight than when we played them a few weeks ago in Phoenix.
Their goaltender made some key saves in the second period. If not for that, we could have been tied up.
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.
This team seems to be more talented. Whether we win or not though remains to be seen.
What records show is consistency, and that's what he's been in his career. He's been a professional and been liked with every team he's been with.
What records show are consistency, and that's what he's shown in his career. When a guy gets that many wins it's from a lot of effort and a lot of hard work and a lot of hours. I know the players tonight wanted him to get this at home.
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.