Gretzky was that good and more! I dont know if there will be a player like him again especially how hockey is now. Maybe a blessing he showed his talents back in the 80's and its still there to watch.
What an amazing player Gretzky was... I never noticed how good he was in the slapshots. Look at 6:10, pretty play. Now we have guys like Sidney Crosby & John Tavares. Can't wait to see Pittsburgh in the playoffs this year.
he is the best i wish he was still playing the way he did and was still in the nhl so i could see his skills in real life he is my idol,Gretzky for life
Totally agree with you. Gretzky is the best scorer ever, ever. Not even close, won scoring titles by 70 and 80 points. Amazing. But Bobby scored goals and prevented goals and checked people and blocked shots, and still won 2 scoring titles. AMazing. Orr & Gretz are #1 and 1A
Best player to have ever lived. Having seen Howe, Gretzky, Hull, Orr, Lemieux, LaFleur, Beliveau.. The best is simple. Bobby Orr. Gretzky is a very very very very close 2nd. It's that close. They were both so amazing in their prime
Like I've said in other posts about this... part of being a great player is NOT dealing with injuries. Super Mario couldn't have helped his back issues or his cancer... but that's all part of it. Wayner just had everything going his way... great health, Hall of Fame linemates, no trap... those all combined to make him the "Greatest Player Ever"... and I'm Canadian... ;-)
Jari Kurri, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, Glenn Anderson, Grant Fuhr, Kevin Lowe...as great a collection of (young) talent any sport has ever seen---are these the goons you're talking about? The sweetest combo ever though: Gretzky to Robataille.
Gretzky, Lemieux and Orr are in a class of their own, far above all the rest. There is no point in comparing them, they were just equally dominant in their respective eras.
7 or 8 years will put him past his prime. Gretzky started putting up monster numbers right from the get go. Ovechkin won't catch him. CZcams and the internet in general is a bit light on Gretzky highlights from the early 80s, but go find them. He was godly.
And, no hockey player in history as ever got close to Gretzky on any stats sheet. Even Gordy Howe, who played over 35 years(!!!) in the nhl. Gretzky has about 2854 pts in career. Of those 2957 pts are 894. He is by far the best scorer ever (and not only scorer). The player who comes in second place on the pts sheet (Mark Messier) isn't even close to match is score with 1887 pts! Nobody can argue this one! And not only was he good, he had charisma, great spirit and he made the game fun to watch.
So far what I see is that no one is better than Gretzky,BUT like they say "there's always some one better" and that day will come maybe next year, maybe next decade, maybe next century, but that day will come. and then that person who will be better than gretzky will be beat, and than that man will be beat, and so on... cuz "there's always someone better"
There were only six teams then, but the population was also much lower and the talent was drawn only from Canada. So, I think the pre- and post-expansion talent difference is puffed. Howe's achievements were remarkable, but I never saw him do what Gretzky could. When Gretzky played, it looked like everybody else on the ice was much slower. But he wasn't really faster, it was that everybody else could only respond to him.
no doubt Orr and Lemieux were more skilled players, but, for those who questions gretzky's greatness, here is a fact: if he had never scored any goals in his career, he would still be the all-time point leader in the NHL. it's enough for me.
Gretzky was easily one of the greatest athletes of all-time, however, all the factors went in his favor (era, team, health). Gordie Howe played his best years before the 80 game schedule was adopted and you could win the scoring title with about 75 pts. That's why he got his one and only 100 pt season (103) at age 40. Did you know Gretzky got his last 100 pt season at age 35 and by 38 he was retired? There's a reason many will argue that Orr, Howe or possibly Lemieux may have been better.
Gretzky could read the play like a wizard, he knew where to be and where everyone was without even looking. Quite possibly the best playmaker the game has ever seen. Do I think he is the best "overall" no, that is reserved to Mario even if his stats are behind, Mario had a physically unhealhy career between his back and the cancer, imagine if Gretzky had to endure that?
As far as the impact on hockey itself, there's no question Wayne is tops. Best player ever? The everlasting question it seems. Howe, Lemieux, Orr and Gretzky. Can you put them in order from most greatest?
The GREAT ONE!! ingen over heller ingen ved siden. SYntes du lager KONGE filmer. Fortsett sånn:D men de beste filmene savner jeg her. hvor er martin kariya filmen?? lr mange av de andre??
my video is called 1994 New York Rangers. the 8 oilers that won the cup for the rangers in 1994 were Colin Campbell - Messier - Graves - Beukaboom - MacTavish - Anderson - Lowe - Tikeneen. the rangers only retired two ranger players from the 1994 team because that's all there was. the rest were oilers and hawks. 1994 LETS GO OILERS!
does anyone know if there is a video on here of when the oilers won the cup and wayne was being interviewed and they dumped the champagne on his head? or the interview after he found out he was being traded to LA? i cant find either on here
His point total is a record for all of professional hockey, ever. Gordie Howe included his points from the WHA and Gretzky still beat him by 1. The don't call him "The Great One" for nothing
Howe was widely thought to be the best of all time before Gretzky came along (at least among forwards). But since Gretzky really demolished every record ever, there are few logical arguements for Howe over Gretzky. Howe played even longer, and was incredibly consistant, but never really reached the same heights as Gretzky did during his prime (200+ seasons, winning scoring races by nearly 80 pts, etc). Besides, Gretzky has more assists than anyone else has points, even Howe.
wayne never had bad health because he never got touched by anybody ever. plus if you look at goalies back then they were waaaaaaaaaaaay worse. And im serious about the fact that he never got touched.
Lemieux might've been up to Gretzky's par skillwise, but when it comes to pure intelligence he falls short by quite a margin. Sometimes when Gretz played you'd see 2-3 players trying to coordinate a hit on him, but they all missed cuz he just slipped away. Also, Gretzky is the one with 60 or so NHL records, including more points per game and more assists than mario has points :). No matter who you like the most though, they were both fantastic players no doubt!
they say sidney crosby is the new great one, but with the new rules there will never be another great one, and the stanely cup might as well be made out of aluminum reynolds wrap
I could have scored on the two set ups Gretzky gave that punk Lindros in the Canada up. Gretzky was better than Lemieux defensively. He did not body check much due to his size, but try getting by him when he was fore checking (he could hem you in or intercept a puck/best read ever), he could also back check, break up a 3 on 1 and skate the other way.
@dantastic76 I'm with you on this one...but if you want to say Mario, Bobby and Gordie are better...you can always make an arguement for them. But I will say this: nobody I've ever seen, and I've seen tones of classic hockey games, ever made his teamates better than Gretzky! And without question, he's the smartest hockey player, EVER!
People are all entitled to their opinion, but Gretzky is so far above everyone else, except Lemieux and Orr, that it's terrifying. I've seen Crosby and Ovechkin play. They'll never do what Wayne did. The stat about him having more assists than anyone else has points really ends all logical discussion of who the best was.
But there's too much factors to consider if you wanna compare players of the 40' and 50' to others from the 80' and 90'. Also, it's too soon to tell if players as young as Crosby could be better than Gretzky (which I doubt).
what r u a kid. you don't know that 12 players from the edmonton dynasty went to n.y.? there were 8 great oilers on the 1994 rangers team. that's how n.y. won the cup.
Great music, fitting for a legend. By the way, Gretzky will always be better than Lemieux. He retired on top, without being the slowest bastard in the league with a bad back like Lemieux.
no way man robataille didnt do anything he had a couple of nice feeds but still hes not the reason gretzkys great and i no u didnt say that but u made it sound like it
the rangers couldn't win the cup through their system so they got 8 members of the 5 time champion oilers and 8 members from the 1992 hawks cup finals team to do it for them. the rangers did have 2 rangers on their team (leetch and richter) along with 4 russians and some crap players. in 1994 the rangers GM Neil Smith said "I'll kiss Edmontons GM Glenn Sathers ass in Macys window if we win the cup this year". Even the rangers GM admits the Oilers won the cup for them. check my vids for it.
The best hitters in the game have admitted that they have tried to hit him but he is always 3 steps ahead of the play. Fine, your opinion on Bobby Orr is your opinion, but if you think Gretzky's accomplishments were from any source aside from his natural talent than you know nothing about hockey. Also, Mario Lemieux and Bobby Orr consider Gretzky the greatest of all time - apparently you know more about hockey than those two.
Note: Crosby sucks, he is not in Gretzky/Lemieux league. If you want to keep an eye on someone do a youtube (or other) search on John Tavares a 16 year old in the OHL who plays for the Oshawa Generals, he broke Gretzky's OHL goal record this year.
ya i know hockey has changed, its pretty sad that the game needs all the new rules just so people can score goals, o ya, gretzky was a 19 year old rookie stupid
so many pretenders...The rock,...mark kevin (what a joke) try to claim the nickname the only difference is, they gave themselves that nickname. Wayne? Everyone else called him that..
You cannot seriously say that? Thats such an unfair assumption, I live and breathe my Pens but you can't just go around shooting your mouth off like that.
gretzky is NOT the best ever...i wish people would realize that...look at Orr who played hard on one leg and what he accomplished doing it...mario played his whole career hurt and still put up ungodly numbers
brilliant piece, I love the first song- it's perfect. Truly the greatest hockey player who ever lived.
There will never be another like him, I can remember when all of Canada lived and died with every stride he took on the ice. I miss him.
troo troo... nobody will never be even close to gretzky... he truly was the great one!!
A legend.The Great One.#99 forever.Great video.
Greatest player of all time! record unbeatable: 92 goals in one season!
Simply amazing.
Gretzky was that good and more! I dont know if there will be a player like him again especially how hockey is now. Maybe a blessing he showed his talents back in the 80's and its still there to watch.
Propably the best video in the whole youtube!
What an amazing player Gretzky was... I never noticed how good he was in the slapshots. Look at 6:10, pretty play. Now we have guys like Sidney Crosby & John Tavares. Can't wait to see Pittsburgh in the playoffs this year.
great tribute for the great one
he is the best i wish he was still playing the way he did and was still in the nhl so i could see his skills in real life he is my idol,Gretzky for life
the greatest of all time.
Totally agree with you. Gretzky is the best scorer ever, ever. Not even close, won scoring titles by 70 and 80 points. Amazing.
But Bobby scored goals and prevented goals and checked people and blocked shots, and still won 2 scoring titles. AMazing. Orr & Gretz are #1 and 1A
Best player to have ever lived. Having seen Howe, Gretzky, Hull, Orr, Lemieux, LaFleur, Beliveau..
The best is simple. Bobby Orr. Gretzky is a very very very very close 2nd. It's that close. They were both so amazing in their prime
Legendary.
i got chills
Like I've said in other posts about this... part of being a great player is NOT dealing with injuries. Super Mario couldn't have helped his back issues or his cancer... but that's all part of it. Wayner just had everything going his way... great health, Hall of Fame linemates, no trap... those all combined to make him the "Greatest Player Ever"...
and I'm Canadian... ;-)
Wayne Gretzky is by far the best hockey player ever. Don't get me wrong; Sakic, Lemieux, Crosby, Orr, Maurice Richard;they're all incredible.
Great stuff, good upload gtasir!
Jari Kurri, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, Glenn Anderson, Grant Fuhr, Kevin Lowe...as great a collection of (young) talent any sport has ever seen---are these the goons you're talking about? The sweetest combo ever though: Gretzky to Robataille.
Yeah don't change the music...especially that first music piece...it kicks ass....nice work.
Gretzky, Lemieux and Orr are in a class of their own, far above all the rest. There is no point in comparing them, they were just equally dominant in their respective eras.
Bring Him Back! & Lemuiex too!
7 or 8 years will put him past his prime. Gretzky started putting up monster numbers right from the get go. Ovechkin won't catch him. CZcams and the internet in general is a bit light on Gretzky highlights from the early 80s, but go find them. He was godly.
hooo baby wayne!
Fun Fact: Gretzky also has the record for most records.
wayne gretzky was a sick player, and no one saw the game like him. He could make something out of absolutely nothing
According to hockeydb Kurri is a righ winger,our Pouzar played with Kurri and Gretzky in line for three seasons as left winger.
its like gretzky died when i watched this video its a good tribute
And, no hockey player in history as ever got close to Gretzky on any stats sheet. Even Gordy Howe, who played over 35 years(!!!) in the nhl. Gretzky has about 2854 pts in career. Of those 2957 pts are 894. He is by far the best scorer ever (and not only scorer). The player who comes in second place on the pts sheet (Mark Messier) isn't even close to match is score with 1887 pts! Nobody can argue this one! And not only was he good, he had charisma, great spirit and he made the game fun to watch.
holy Wayne!!!
they are doing better with him than they were before he got there.
great video
So far what I see is that no one is better than Gretzky,BUT like they say "there's always some one better" and that day will come maybe next year, maybe next decade, maybe next century, but that day will come. and then that person who will be better than gretzky will be beat, and than that man will be beat, and so on... cuz "there's always someone better"
There were only six teams then, but the population was also much lower and the talent was drawn only from Canada. So, I think the pre- and post-expansion talent difference is puffed. Howe's achievements were remarkable, but I never saw him do what Gretzky could. When Gretzky played, it looked like everybody else on the ice was much slower. But he wasn't really faster, it was that everybody else could only respond to him.
Number 9 was Gordie Hows #, his hero. Another kid already had 9 so he added another 9.
no doubt Orr and Lemieux were more skilled players, but, for those who questions gretzky's greatness, here is a fact:
if he had never scored any goals in his career, he would still be the all-time point leader in the NHL.
it's enough for me.
Gretzky was easily one of the greatest athletes of all-time, however, all the factors went in his favor (era, team, health). Gordie Howe played his best years before the 80 game schedule was adopted and you could win the scoring title with about 75 pts. That's why he got his one and only 100 pt season (103) at age 40. Did you know Gretzky got his last 100 pt season at age 35 and by 38 he was retired? There's a reason many will argue that Orr, Howe or possibly Lemieux may have been better.
Put Gretzky in this era of no redline and no clutching and grabbing, the guy probably gets 300 pts instead of 200, best ever by far.
Gretzky could read the play like a wizard, he knew where to be and where everyone was without even looking. Quite possibly the best playmaker the game has ever seen. Do I think he is the best "overall" no, that is reserved to Mario even if his stats are behind, Mario had a physically unhealhy career between his back and the cancer, imagine if Gretzky had to endure that?
As far as the impact on hockey itself, there's no question Wayne is tops. Best player ever? The everlasting question it seems. Howe, Lemieux, Orr and Gretzky. Can you put them in order from most greatest?
@woodss3 Good point. Other goalies to include would be: Don Edwards, Chico Resch, Tony Esposito, Rick Wamsley, Mike Vernon...
correction: He's got 2857 pts (894 goals) in 20 years of carrer.
The GREAT ONE!! ingen over heller ingen ved siden.
SYntes du lager KONGE filmer. Fortsett sånn:D men de beste filmene savner jeg her. hvor er martin kariya filmen?? lr mange av de andre??
simple why he chose 99, his idol maurice richard , the greatest of all
Anyone notice on almost every goal he scores in this clip, he fakes the short first, goalie moves, opens his legs, then he scores 5 hole?
my video is called 1994 New York Rangers. the 8 oilers that won the cup for the rangers in 1994 were Colin Campbell - Messier - Graves - Beukaboom - MacTavish - Anderson - Lowe - Tikeneen. the rangers only retired two ranger players from the 1994 team because that's all there was. the rest were oilers and hawks. 1994 LETS GO OILERS!
Ovechkin and Crosby haven`t this understanding and playing Hockey. Gretzkys rules
does anyone know if there is a video on here of when the oilers won the cup and wayne was being interviewed and they dumped the champagne on his head? or the interview after he found out he was being traded to LA? i cant find either on here
...and Bobby Orr could skate circles around Coffey, Gretzky, and Lemieux.
Did Lemieux score 50 goals in 39 games?
Lemieux also only played about 750 games in 22 years because of injuries. He may have liked a guy like Semenko or McSorley around.
His point total is a record for all of professional hockey, ever. Gordie Howe included his points from the WHA and Gretzky still beat him by 1. The don't call him "The Great One" for nothing
Howe was widely thought to be the best of all time before Gretzky came along (at least among forwards). But since Gretzky really demolished every record ever, there are few logical arguements for Howe over Gretzky. Howe played even longer, and was incredibly consistant, but never really reached the same heights as Gretzky did during his prime (200+ seasons, winning scoring races by nearly 80 pts, etc). Besides, Gretzky has more assists than anyone else has points, even Howe.
Gretzky owns the stats. But Mario is the greatest player ever!
wayne never had bad health because he never got touched by anybody ever. plus if you look at goalies back then they were waaaaaaaaaaaay worse.
And im serious about the fact that he never got touched.
Lets just hope Edmonton will have another hero and i think we just got 2 Eberly and Hall
omg so pro
Lemieux might've been up to Gretzky's par skillwise, but when it comes to pure intelligence he falls short by quite a margin. Sometimes when Gretz played you'd see 2-3 players trying to coordinate a hit on him, but they all missed cuz he just slipped away.
Also, Gretzky is the one with 60 or so NHL records, including more points per game and more assists than mario has points :).
No matter who you like the most though, they were both fantastic players no doubt!
You dont think people tried? They all tried, but he was _very_ good with rolling with checks. It's not as easy as it looks you know.
they say sidney crosby is the new great one, but with the new rules there will never be another great one, and the stanely cup might as well be made out of aluminum reynolds wrap
Whats the name of the first song in this clip?
i don't really like him, but he was just the best
I could have scored on the two set ups Gretzky gave that punk Lindros in the Canada up. Gretzky was better than Lemieux defensively. He did not body check much due to his size, but try getting by him when he was fore checking (he could hem you in or intercept a puck/best read ever), he could also back check, break up a 3 on 1 and skate the other way.
actually the top three i would go with is gretzky,howe cuz howe was the second best ever and he had the second most goals points and stuff
actually ya i am a kid and how am i suppose to know of the 1994 rangers team
@dantastic76 I'm with you on this one...but if you want to say Mario, Bobby and Gordie are better...you can always make an arguement for them. But I will say this: nobody I've ever seen, and I've seen tones of classic hockey games, ever made his teamates better than Gretzky! And without question, he's the smartest hockey player, EVER!
They tried to, what do you think? Gretzky just was good and smart enough to avoid them.
he wasnt that fast either was he..he just thought the game out good.
People are all entitled to their opinion, but Gretzky is so far above everyone else, except Lemieux and Orr, that it's terrifying. I've seen Crosby and Ovechkin play. They'll never do what Wayne did. The stat about him having more assists than anyone else has points really ends all logical discussion of who the best was.
whats the name of this song
99
it`s not more to say
But there's too much factors to consider if you wanna compare players of the 40' and 50' to others from the 80' and 90'. Also, it's too soon to tell if players as young as Crosby could be better than Gretzky (which I doubt).
lol
rookie crosby :gp81, goals39, assists63, points102 rookie gretzky :gp79, goals51, assists86, points137
last of the mohicans nice vid u should have put magwa i mean wes studi in it
i won't deny that he was amazing. but come on he wouldn't have scored half as much if people actually played physical with him.
what r u a kid. you don't know that 12 players from the edmonton dynasty went to n.y.? there were 8 great oilers on the 1994 rangers team. that's how n.y. won the cup.
no it doesn't!!
it's total subjectiv who's the best hockeyplayer..
Great music, fitting for a legend. By the way, Gretzky will always be better than Lemieux. He retired on top, without being the slowest bastard in the league with a bad back like Lemieux.
Yeah and dick cheney's the best shot on earth too nogoodmorning :)
Perhaps even the greatest all-time professional athlete... all sports considered. Better than Ruth. Better than Jordan. Just unreal.
no way man robataille didnt do anything he had a couple of nice feeds but still hes not the reason gretzkys great and i no u didnt say that but u made it sound like it
I could school Gretzky's ass in hockey! HOW DARE YOU THINK HE IS BETTER THAN ME!!!
the rangers couldn't win the cup through their system so they got 8 members of the 5 time champion oilers and 8 members from the 1992 hawks cup finals team to do it for them. the rangers did have 2 rangers on their team (leetch and richter) along with 4 russians and some crap players. in 1994 the rangers GM Neil Smith said "I'll kiss Edmontons GM Glenn Sathers ass in Macys window if we win the cup this year". Even the rangers GM admits the Oilers won the cup for them. check my vids for it.
Not bad, but he's no Lemieux.
what the hell are you talking about
The best hitters in the game have admitted that they have tried to hit him but he is always 3 steps ahead of the play. Fine, your opinion on Bobby Orr is your opinion, but if you think Gretzky's accomplishments were from any source aside from his natural talent than you know nothing about hockey.
Also, Mario Lemieux and Bobby Orr consider Gretzky the greatest of all time - apparently you know more about hockey than those two.
Note: Crosby sucks, he is not in Gretzky/Lemieux league. If you want to keep an eye on someone do a youtube (or other) search on John Tavares a 16 year old in the OHL who plays for the Oshawa Generals, he broke Gretzky's OHL goal record this year.
his "one trick" is better than all of yours put together
ya i know hockey has changed, its pretty sad that the game needs all the new rules just so people can score goals, o ya, gretzky was a 19 year old rookie
stupid
so many pretenders...The rock,...mark kevin (what a joke) try to claim the nickname the only difference is, they gave themselves that nickname. Wayne? Everyone else called him that..
You cannot seriously say that? Thats such an unfair assumption, I live and breathe my Pens but you can't just go around shooting your mouth off like that.
Bigbadben7, my dad is stronger than your dad...!
gretzky is NOT the best ever...i wish people would realize that...look at Orr who played hard on one leg and what he accomplished doing it...mario played his whole career hurt and still put up ungodly numbers
Gretzky was a good player but i think he is overrated there was plenty of better talent then him like orr and bure