Gretzky's Tears: Hockey, Canada, and the Day Everything Changed Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Gretzky's Tears: Hockey, Canada, and the Day Everything Changed Book

Renowned sportswriter Stephen Brunt reveals how â??the Great One,â? who was bought and sold more than once, decided that the comfortable Canadian city where hockey ruled couldnâ??t compete with the slushy ice of a California franchise.Bobby Orrâ??s career ended prematurely, with tears. Wayne Gretzkyâ??s tears, unlike Orrâ??s, announced not an ending but another beginning. Gretzkyâ??s Edmonton Oilers had four Stanley Cup victories, but Gretzky may then have had other goals in mind.Beginning with his dad, Walter, and continuing with Nelson Skalbania, Peter Pocklington, Bruce McNall, Jerry Buss â?? and with the CBCâ??s Peter Gzowski as chronicler for the eager masses â?? the enormity of Gretzkyâ??s talent attracted all sorts of people who were after a variety of vicarious thrills.Read More

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  • 0307397297
  • 9780307397294
  • Stephen Brunt
  • 6 October 2009
  • Random House of Canada Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
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