Other sports have incomplete analogue. In the shadow of the baseball steroid era, Barry Bond, who took a home run record from Hank Aaron, was a tough, almost siege-like trial. LeBron James passed Kareem Abdul Yabar and claimed that the NBA scored record had a misunderstanding of its own, but in the end, Abdul Jaber proved that Grace would win.
“It’s as if you won $1 billion in the lottery and someone won $2 billion in 39 years,” he wrote in his material. “How do I feel? I’m grateful that I won and I’m happy that the next person has won. His victory will never affect my victory.”
Greetzky was equally generous with his judgment. Going back to 2020, he talked about how he wanted to be the first person to shake Ovechkin’s hand if he managed the feat. In 2022 he asked Cap owner Ted Leonsis if he could travel with the team when Ovechkin approached.
The difference was the importance of baseball and basketball records being a national issue and being limited to those involved. It doesn’t feel like only Gretzky will be allowed to win a hockey goal record. Mantel, the biggest goalscorer, is a series of unbroken chains among Canadians like Torch, from Joe Malone to Saidenny, Howie Morenz, Nels Stewart, Maurice Richard and Gordy Howe, amongst Torch-like Canadians, a great thing, from Joe Malone to Saiddenny, Howie Morenz, Nels Stewart, Maurice Richard and Gordy Howe.
Now, in a particularly gentle period, the state’s rule over Gretzky appears to be as tenuous as he holds the record. The response to the four Canadian countries’ face-off victory, and Gretzky’s perception of ambiguity towards that, is something else, as Canadians feel territorially about a lot, and hockey is the first as always.
Gretzky and Canada have lost the Russian goal record, and the absurd supporters of Vladimir Putin, who plays in the American capital, are just adding to the sense of surrender for some.
“I don’t think I’ll take anything from Wayne and his legacy,” Carberry said. “I think this is the celebration of the biggest goal scorer in the history of the game.”
So how do Canadians feel that?
