time he retired in 1999, he held forty regular-season records, fifteen playoff records, and
six All-Star records. With more than thirty NHL awards and trophies, including four
Stanley Cup championships, Gretzky’s entry in the official record books is longer than
that of any other hockey player.
Some of his records may never be broken; no other player has ever scored 200 points in a
season, something that Wayne did four times! He capped his incredible career in 2002 by
coaching Canada’s Olympic hockey team to its first gold medal in fifty years.
When Wayne Gretzky stopped playing, every single team in the NHL retired his number
- there will never be another number 99 in the NHL. Today, the hockey experts no longer
talk about his lack of size or speed. They simply call him “The Great One.”
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