Wayne Douglas Gretzky CC (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ t s k i / GRET-skee; born January 26, 1961) is a Canadian American former professional ice hockey player and former head coach.He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999. Nicknamed "the Great One", [1] he has been called the greatest ice hockey player ever by the NHL [2] based on surveys of hockey writers, ex ...

By the age of ten, he had scored an amazing 378 goals and 120 assists in just 85 games with the Brantford Nadrofsky Steelers. His play attracted media attention even beyond his hometown of Brantford. By 13, he had scored over 1,000 goals.

Jan 21, 2023 · In 1971-72, Wayne Gretzky put up 517 points in 85 games. That works out to an astonishing 6+ points per game. Gretzky scored 378 goals that season, which meant that he would scoring an average of 4.44 goals per game.

Apr 18, 2024 · In 82 percent of the 1,487 regular-season games Wayne Gretzky played, he had at least one point. "That's like a batter hitting .400 lifetime," Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman says.

Gretzky was a prodigy at ice hockey and his extraordinary skill allowed him play with ten year olds (when he was aged only six) in the Novice ‘A’ Division of the Brantford Nadrofsky Steelers team in 1967, where he scored a goal in his first season playing for this team.

Apr 18, 2023 · Wayne Gretzky's regular season records. Gretzky now holds the mark, or at least a share of, 39 records for the regular season. He had 40 before Ovechkin beat his mark of 12 seasons with 40...

Jan 16, 2025 · Alexander Ovechkin’s pursuit of The Great One is approaching its final stage. Ovi needs just 22 goals to overtake Wayne Gretzky as the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer with 895. Not only is...

Wayne Gretzky, often called “The Great One,” is widely considered the greatest hockey player of all time. His exceptional talent and skill revolutionized the game of ice hockey, setting a new standard for future generations.

Jan 24, 2025 · SEATTLE (AP) — Alex Ovechkin moved within 20 goals of breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record with an empty-netter, helping the Washington Capitals beat the Seattle Kraken 3-0 on Thursday night for their sixth straight victory. Ovechkin scored his 22nd goal of the season to push his career total to 875. Gretzky scored 894 goals in […]

Jan 29, 2025 · Alex Ovechkin will almost certainly break Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal-scoring record. Ovechkin began this season with 853 goals — 41 shy of Gretzky’s 894 — and got off to a great start ...