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If the Canadian city of Brantford, Ontario, doesn’t immediately come to mind, you’re probably not a hockey fan. Brantford is the birthplace of Wayne Gretzky, likely the greatest hockey player to lace up skates. He’s a staple of the nation, like the sport he plays and the Tim Hortons coffee people love. But, like most young people growing up playing hockey in Canada, Gretzky had his own heroes to look up to.
When Gretzky was a kid, Tim Horton, the founder of the restaurant chain and a hockey star in his own right in the ’60s, signed a napkin for a young Wayne.
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