“THERE IT IS HIS 894th GOAL” (Announcer). This amazing hockey legend also known as “The Great One” upon his retirement on April 18, 1999 Wayne Douglas Gretzky held/shared 61 National Hockey League records. These records include 40 regular season, 15 playoff, and 6 All-star records. These extravagant statistics just shows you how he got his name. Today I’m going to go through the process as to how this legend got so great. First we can begin with the early years of this legend. In the wonderful place
recently in the news for ending his decades-long separation from the team. The 75-year-old Hall of Famer was on four Stanley Cup winning teams with Toronto, won the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie-of-the-year, twice he took home the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for the league’s most gentlemanly player and he captured the Conn Smythe Trophy that goes to the playoff
to look up to, but Gretzky didn’t need to look up to anyone after he got 137 points in his rookie season. Gretzky started to break records and become the best player in the NHL very fast. In his first year pro, he won the Hart Memorial Trophy and the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, plus that’s only his rookie season. Gretzky couldn’t have been set up better because going into his second year in the NHL already has 137 points to his name is incredible. However having teammates like Jari Kurri, Paul Coffey
quickly started to dominate the competition, racking up an astonishing 51 goals and 86 assists, on his way to winning the league's Hart Memorial Trophy, an award recognizing its most valuable player,” (“Wayne Gretzky Biography”). It was the first time in history a first-year player had ever been honored with the award. Gretzky went on to win the Hart Memorial Trophy nine more times over the span of his career. To this day, he still holds the record for the most times that specific award has been given