Hockey Journo Recalls Wayne Gretzky Scoop That Got Away
Today is Wayne Gretzky’s 50th birthday, a momentous event north of the border that has been marked for the past week or so by all manner of op eds, interview articles and sports journalist recollections. Here in LA, the Great One was courtside at the Lakers game last night with his kids but told NHL.com he was planning otherwise on having a low-key birthday.
The 1988 trade of Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings was of course a momentously sad business transaction for Canada, recently revisited by Peter Berg for ESPN’s 30 by 30 series.
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