Whenever you ask a hockey fan who the greatest player to ever lace up skates and hit the ice is, most will give the same ...

This week, Fischler reveals how Wayne Gretzky came very close to becoming Gordie Howe's linemate with the New England Whalers in the WHA. Imagine Wayne Gretzky fulfilling a childhood dream and ...

Wayne Gretzky honored two of the greatest goal ... The Great One wore a No. 9 red pin over the left side of his chest, the number of Gordie Howe. Gretzky held the NHL record for 31 years until ...

While Alex Ovechkin set the NHL career goal record on Sunday passing Wayne Gretzky ... to celebrate Detroit Red Wings legend Gordie Howe. Gretzky had passed Howe to set the goal record, before ...

Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe hold pucks representing their career regular-season points totals. Gretzky broke Howe’s NHL record at Edmonton’s Northlands Coliseum on Oct. 15, 1989. There was a ...

Alex Ovechkin officially stands alone as the NHL's all-time leading goal-scorer, passing Wayne Gretzky ... NHL career Gretzky wore that pin in honor of the late Gordie Howe, who owned the goals ...

But Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr and Mario Lemieux had no reluctance to say No. 9 is No. 1. They agree that Gordie Howe is the best to ever play. “We talk about this all of the time, and I think ...

Wayne Gretzky, arguably the greatest player in NHL history, has great admiration and affection for hockey legend Gordie Howe who "The Great One" considers his favorite and the greatest hockey ...

And this one here is a full-proof instance. When Wayne Gretzky broke Gordie Howe’s record back on 3/23/1994, Gordie Howie was present to witness it. And now, when Alex Ovechkin is a game or two ...

“Did you see Wayne?” asks a man wearing ... Geography, Math?” Gretzky showed Murray his collection of Gordie Howe hockey instruction books. “You want to be a doctor,” Gretzky told ...

Wayne Gretzky, smart man: “I’m so glad we’re not at the Nassau Coliseum, I lost a lot of games there.” A nice touch from the NHL as the Howe and Richard families - with Gordie Howe and ...

Rusanowsky said. “It was Wayne Gretzky, calling Ovechkin and encouraging him, telling him to stay with it. That’s a carryover from when Gretzky was approaching Gordie Howe’s record and ...