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Wayne Douglas Gretzky

NHL, the National Hockey League is a premier professional North American Sports League played in indoor stadiums. It’s divided into two conferences, each comprising of three divisions of ice hockey teams. The league was established in 1917 in Montreal, Quebec and it is composed of 30 teams out of which 24 teams based in U.S. and 6 in Canada. They have a regular season and playoffs leading to the Stanley Cup, which is the NHL Championship final.

Wayne Douglas Gretzky is a well known hockey player. He was born on January 26th, 1961 in Brantford, Ontario. He played in 20 NHL seasons from 1979 to 1999. He was inducted in the hall of fame in 1999. In each season, his skills improved noticeably and he set scoring records that was ridiculous, particularly a 378 goal season in his final year in pee wee in Brantford. Wayne Gretzky lived possibly the most celebrated childhood of any athlete. When he was six years old, his father, Walter, built a rink in the family's backyard, and it was there that Wayne skated for hours on end every day and practiced his skating, shooting and stickhandling along with learning a whole lot of things about the game from his dad.

Wayne scored only a single goal in his initial year, when he was playing with ten year olds. As he improved, he got the nickname of the White Tornado as he wore white hockey gloves and because of his speed and skill. Each year he played at a higher level, and maintained his superiority. When he was 14, he determined that the pressure of playing in his small hometown was too great and the jealous players and parents made him unhappy. He planned to relocate to Toronto and there he played for the Toronto Nats. While Wayne was always a star in the league he never won the Stanley Cup.

When he was 15, Wayne played three games with the Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Hockey Association as an emergency call up, and even then the great one intimidated scouts with his talent regardless of his small stature and youth. He had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by giving some extra hard work and efforts.

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