If you were to ask any hockey fan who the greatest player of all time is, there would generally be one name you would hear. With over sixty records and four Stanley cups Wayne Gretzky is without question "The Great One".

... If you were to ask any hockey fan who the greatest player of all time is, there would generally be one name you would hear. With over sixty records and four Stanley cups Wayne Gretzky is without question "The Great One". When Gretzky first started out he was always criticized of being too small and too weak. He never let this bother him and after one year of being in the National Hockey League (NHL) he silenced the world. This was the birth of a legend. Wayne Douglas Gretzky was brought into this world by Walter and Phyllis Gretzky on January 26th, 1961 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Wayne was the first of five children. Walter, who was a former amateur hockey player himself, realized that his son Wayne had an undeniable talent. Wayne began skating at the age of two, on the Nith River near his grandparents' farm. At the

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