god i miss those Gretzky years...we actually started renting the ice and playing again because of him...best player in all team sports history, not even close.
The years that the Islanders kept drilling the Oilers really chaffed my butt. But Gretzky, Coffee, Messiah, Greg, and Kuri gave me the fever. It’s the sport I go to after the World Series. Everyone worried about Russians coming into the NHL it made the game faster with more skill. Everyone in the world had to keep up. A truly great spectator sport.