Thursday, November 29, 2007

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  • in the 1983 NHL All-star game, Wayne scored four goals in the third period, set three records, tied one, and won another car.
  • In the 1984 game, he missed 2 breakaways, scored 1 goal, played about 25% as well as he can, and didn't win anything.
  • On his first shift in a game in Los Angeles, he'd been checked cleanly, fallen agaisnt the boards and felt something give in his right shoulder. A bruise, he thought at first. As the days went by and it got worse, the Oilers thought it might be a slight sprain, but it would clear up. Two days after the All-star game, the x-rayed it. The shoulder wasn't bruised and it wasn't sprained. It was separated. A "Class 1" they called it, which is the least serious on a scale of 3. He still played but with a separated shoulder.
  • In 4 NHL years, he'd set 24 league records and held a share of 10 others. He'd won 3 straight league scoring championships, setting those goal, assist and point records along the way.
  • In 1975, he bought the Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association, for cash, 2 Rolls-Royce cars, Mrs Pocklington's diamond ring and 2 Krieghoff prints. At one point he owned 4 Rolls-Royces 3 condominiums, a 165-foot yacht, the jet, and this house he'd bought for $1.5 million in 1979 and now he wanted to buy Wayne.

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