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Mark Messier
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“Tampa Bay has been a great place to live and play from the day I got there. As soon as the season ended I knew it was a place I wanted to be.” – Ryan Callahan on June 25th, 2014
Gee, that was awfully nice for Ryan Callahan to say. As a resident, it’s always a pleasure to hear people say good things about the place where you live. But aside from the warm fuzzy feelings, a reasoned argument can be made that hockey players kind of have it made in Tampa Bay.
That’s not to say that Tampa Bay is automatically the very best place to play for every player in the NHL. Certainly all 30 cities in the league are dynamic regions with unique aspects that make them stand out. Also, personal tastes, needs and wants are subjective and will vary person by person. You simply can’t question the validity of a guy’s stated desire to live and play in New York, Los Angeles or Winnipeg. You can question why a player wouldn’t want to play in Tampa Bay fo
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Gretzky’s Story
The Legend of 99
Born in Brantford, Ontario in 1961, Wayne Gretzky learned to skate on a rink his father Walter built in the family’s backyard. Practicing for hours on end, it was here that a ung Gretzky developed the skating, shooting and stickhandling techniques that appeared instinctive to so many over the course of his career.
It's not God-given, it's Wally-given. Wayne Gretzky, on the role hard work played in his success
At six years old, an already-impressive Gretzky joined a league filled with players four years his senior. He scored only one goal in his first season, but improved dramatically over the course of his minor league career and finished it off with an incredible 378-goal season.
Gretzky continued to impress as a teenager, finishing second in scoring during his only full årstid in the OHA, then first in the 1978 World Junior Championships. It was during that 1977-1978 OHA årstid that Gretzky started wearing his now-iconic ‘99’, after his u