One of my best friends is from Brantford, huge hockey nut and a big Gretzky fan and man this must sting her so bad and it’s understandable. Gotta be so frustrating.
As one of the “Lemieux is the GOAT” crowd… LOL
I’m not from Brantford, but I’m from SOnt, and he was a god to a kid in the 80s. I remember fighting every ounce of my energy trying to stay up to watch the late night games as a little tiny kid. I remember saying as a 3 or 4 year old that I’m going to Edmonton when I grow up, I’m going to work and watch Wayne Gretzky (and it’s funny how that almost actually played out, but I got the wrong city). It breaks my fucking heart. You broke our hearts Wayne. Never meet your heroes they say, and it’s a funny saying because most of my heroes have actually turned out to be pretty stand up in person too. All but one.
Brantford is the most MAGA place in Canada outside of Alberta. Worst drunk driving and domestic violence rates in Southern Ontario.
Lemieux still isn’t the goat. Gretzky sucks hot ass, fuck the guy thoroughly and completely. But you can’t take his stats away. There’s plenty of athletes who have done impressive feats of athleticism and are still total pieces of shit.
He was at the inauguration, we know.
Ya, we already knew about the traitor.
Elbows up, our defense doesn’t care whether he’s a star player or not.
The not so great one
The Great Once
Seriously this is really old news.
Make Apathetic Gretzky American.
I think Walter would be ashamed, I knew him personally from his charity work and he was a good man, a true Canadian and pretty opinionated in his own quiet way. I’m glad he didn’t live to see his son involved in and downplaying this shit. I can’t imagine how he would’ve felt good about it. Money and celebrity (and as someone else suggested, maybe CTE too) corrupts some people. It seems Wayne is one of those.
We know.
Yeah, I’ve started getting (more) annoyed at the people that say "you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Mostly because fuck anyone who is MAGA. But I’ve also always found it to be a stupid quote. Gretzky was more of a set up player than a goal scorer. In the hockey world, idiots quote him as an excuse for making a pass.
Despite being “a set up player,” he was still the highest scoring player of all time until April of this year.
Sure, but Greyzky had twice as many assists as goals.
Ovechkin has almost twice as many goals as assists.
I’m not saying Gretzky didn’t score, but he wasn’t shooting 100% of the time. He wasn’t even shooting most of the time.
Jarome Iginla was always my hero.
And this is news?
We know. Not that it matters. He moved to the US decades ago, anyway…so they can keep him.
and they can keep his shitty grape juice and industrial solvent whisky.
We know. He is a dickhead. His “whiskey” is shit, his “wine” tastes like his “whiskey” (also shit) and he is shit.
Who fucking cares. Old rich guy likes Trump. Shocker.
People in Edmonton have been literally shitting on his statue. We know about the traitor.
Traitor to the core. Orr, too.
He was Canadian when he was Great… now he is garbage and became MAGA
There is a significant percentage of Canadians who wish to be American. I’ve known several. I don’t understand it. I’m expat American.
