Posts About "Wayne Gretzky"
Best Undrafted Players in NHL History
November 6th, 2018 Throughout NHL history, the league's elite players have typically been those selected in the annual NHL Entry Draft. The position and round in which these players are drafted are often used as a measuring stick to determine the future success of a given player. Players selected early in the first round have expectations of greatness...
Great One, Rat and Sea Bass: Hurricanes' Aho in Good Company
November 1st, 2018 Tuesday night, Sebastian Aho of the Carolina Hurricanes tied a significant NHL record, becoming just the third player in league history to record an assist in each of his team’s first 12 games of a season after he helped get the puck to teammate Michael Ferland, who scored in the first period against the visiting Boston Bruins to give...
NHL Awards History: Oldest & Youngest Winners
October 31st, 2018 We updated this list from the THW Archives of the oldest and youngest winners in NHL history, originally published Jan. 19, 2015. And, before you say anything, I didn't do the math to figure out who was older or younger by months if there was a tie, except for the Calder Trophy's youngest winner. (All stats and records...
Remembering What Made Mario Lemieux Greatest
October 26th, 2018 Equal parts exhilarating and devastating, sports are quite simply unpredictable. Ask the city of Pittsburgh. This week 25 years ago, Penguins fans experienced both emotions at the same time. Riding back-to-back Stanley Cup championships and looking like a team destined to three-peat, Mario Lemieux stepped to the podium at a sudden press...
Revisiting the Oilers' First NHL Game: Oct. 10, 1979
October 10th, 2018 Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier and Kevin Lowe retired from the National Hockey League with nothing to prove to their peers in the game. But on Oct. 10, 1979, they flew into O'Hare International Airport ready to show, not that they were elite, but that they belonged. That was the night of the Edmonton Oilers' first game in the NHL. After...
Wayne Gretzky: The Great One's 10 Most Unbreakable Records
October 8th, 2018 Wayne Gretzky spent his entire professional hockey career (20 seasons in the NHL and one in the WHA) rewriting the record books. When 'The Great One' retired following the 1998-99 season, he held 61 NHL records. Gretzky's stats have set the benchmark so high that it appears that many -- if not all -- of his records appear to be...
