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Wayne Gretzky

Also Known As The Great One
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Wayne Gretzky, nicknamed The Great One, is a retired Canadian ice hockey player universally regarded as the greatest to play the sport. Across 20 NHL seasons from 1979 to 1999 with four teams he set the league's career records for goals, assists and points, records that remain unbroken. He won four Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers, nine Hart Trophies as most valuable player and ten Art Ross Trophies as leading scorer. On his 1999 retirement the NHL retired his number 99 across every team in the league. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1961 2
Birth Date
1961-01-26 1
Nationality
Canada 1
Career Highlight
Holds the NHL career records for goals, assists and points, and his career assist total alone exceeds any other players total career points. 1
Career Highlight
Retired in 1999 holding 61 NHL records, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame the same year without the usual three year wait, and the NHL retired his number 99 league wide, an honor given to no other player. 1
Career Highlight
Won four Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers, in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1988, and topped 200 points in a single season four times, unmatched in NHL history. 1
Classification
Competition Category
Team 1
FAQs

Which NHL teams did Wayne Gretzky play for?

The Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers.

Gretzky played for four NHL teams. After his years with the Edmonton Oilers he was traded to the Los Angeles Kings on August 9, 1988. The Kings traded him to the St. Louis Blues on February 27, 1996, and on July 21, 1996 he signed as a free agent with the New York Rangers. He retired on April 16, 1999.
Connections

Competed In

Stanley Cup, Competitions
Source Wikipedia, Wayne Gretzky

Long-Form Articles

Skating to open ice: how Gretzky played without the puck, Articles

Plays

Ice Hockey, Sports
Source Wikipedia, Wayne Gretzky
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Nationality

Canada

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

United States

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

Sources
1. Wikipedia, Wayne Gretzky
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  • Wikipedia or cited reference, description lead (competition-category)
    Wayne Gretzky, nicknamed The Great One, is a retired Canadian ice hockey player universally regarded as the greatest to play the sport.
  • Plays: Ice Hockey
  • Competed In: Stanley Cup, lead paragraph, competed-in
    Traded to the Los Angeles Kings where he played eight seasons, he led them to the 1993 Stanley Cup Final, and he is credited with popularizing hockey in California.
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2. Wikidata: Wayne Gretzky
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