Happy birthday Wayne!   Say what you will about Lemieux and newcomers Crosby and Ovechkin.  Gretzky scored 50 goals in 39 games.  He also scored 92 goals in a season. I could go on and on…  He is the greatest hockey player of all time.  Check out some WatchMojo.com videos in honor of his 50th birthday: continue reading...

It was a combination of the Vancouver Olympics, Cheryl Bernard, the “Vancougar” Canadian team captain, and the Norwegians’ now-famous brightly coloured Argyll-patterned trousers that has brought the sport into the public’s attention.

The New York Times has reported on the sport’s surging popularity on Wall Street while the Los Angeles Times reported on the sport’s unusually big draw on West Coast viewers. The Washington Post reported that fans were “drawn far and wide to the sport.” continue reading...

Wayne Gretzky was unlike any hockey player to come before, or after. Known as The Great One to this day, Gretzky is considered by many to be the greatest hockey player ever to play the game. It therefore shocked Canadians when he was uprooted from Edmonton to go play in Los Angeles, from a market deeply invested in its hockey team to a market where seemingly no one cared about the sport. In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com speaks with sportswriter Stephen Brunt to learn about what led up to the Gretzky trade, how that trade changed the game forever, and to discuss his book, ‘Gretzky’s Tears.’ continue reading...

I still don’t understand why Wayne wanted to jump headfirst into the pressure cooker that is a head coaching job in the NHL.  Especially with a team as underachieving as the Coyotes? Why not take some other head office job, even starting as a GM would have been a smarter move?  Anyways, it should be interesting to see where he ends up now that he’s done the Team Canada thing and done the head coaching thing.  Read more on his exit below from TheSportingNews.com:

 Wayne Gretzky has stepped down as head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, he announced Thursday. continue reading...