Wayne Gretzky

       Wayne Gretzky is unique in any sport.  He has almost double the number of points of any other player in the history of hockey.  Where Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods will surpass their historical counterparts by 5% or 10%, Gretzky nearly doubled those records.

       He holds 61 individual records for most points, goals, assists, points per game, goals per game, assists per game, playoff points, playoff goals, playoff assists, points per season, goals per season, assists per season, number of MVP trophies... the list goes on.

       In his record breaking 215 point season (modern scoring titles are won between 90 and 125 points), he had more goals than every other player in the league had points (goals + assists). He had more assists than any other player had points.  In fact, he nearly matched the point production of an ENTIRE TEAM from that season (The Colorado Rockies had 241 points for the entire team that season).

       And with him, it wasn't a case of "different era, different players" like Wilt Chamberlin.  He played against the greats of the modern era.  He scored against Patrick Roy and Martin Brodeur in net and faced Chris Chelios and ray Borque and Nicholas Lidstrom on defense.  He took faceoffs against Joe Sakic, Joe Thornton and Jaromir Jagr and still put together the 14th best season in NHL history.

Wayne Gretzky comment by HockeyFan

       The best athlete ever to play proffesioanl sports. he good. better then every nhler.

Wayne Gretzky comment by Zach

       When a person says "the great one" you automatically know that they're talking about Gretzky.  To me that is saying something.

       Gretzky was the most dominant player to ever put skates on.  He will always be the best that there ever was.  I would move him to number one if it was my list.

Wayne Gretzky comment by Greggor

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