It's Super Bowl weekend, and with an undefeated Patriots team poised to make history, the inevitable "greatest ever" discussions are rampant, focused primarily on Tom Brady and the team as a whole. While I don't care to weigh in on those debates, it seems like a timely moment to remember the greatest career ever, in any sport.
Read this abridged list of accomplishments and dare to disagree:
- 2,857 career regular season points (the next closest is 30 short of a thousand less)
- Quickest to 50 goals (39 games)
- 61 goals in fifty games, not once, not twice, but three times
- Over a glorious 51-game streak, he averaged three points per game (153 points)
- 894 goals in 1,487 games
- 92 goals in a single season, more than one per game in an 80-game schedule
-47 points in a single playoff
- 1,963 regular season assists (1,487 games), more than one a game over an entire career
- Youngest player to score 50 goals (19 years, 2 months)
- 50 hat tricks
- 9 MVP awards
- 19 seasons as his teams leading scorer (all but one of a 20-year career)
- Four consecutive 70-goal seasons
- 10 assists in a four-game playoff series
- 137 points in his first year
- He reached 1,000 points in 424 games
- Quickest to reach, 50, 200, 400, 500, 600, 700, and 800 goal benchmarks
- On retirement, he held 61 NHL records (he still holds 60)
Wayne Gretzky. The Great One.
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