Wayne Gretzky was at it again the other day, sticking his finger into the wind to gauge which way the wind was blowing on the Phoenix Coyotes issue. Only to - big surprise - straddle the fence.
I nearly keeled over laughing but then I realized who I was reading about. And yeah, OK, I admit it. As web editor of The Record, I write many headlines and yes, "Gretzky wants everyone to wind up happy" was written tongue in cheek. Besides which, read the story and you realize he said absolutely nothing.
As a recent commenter to the Toronto Star suggested, "great player, not very bright." Again, just because he was a great player doesn't mean he's a great hockey executive. If he were a great hockey executive he'd fire himself as coach of the Coyotes and would never have put himself behind the bench in the first place.
Take Mario Lemieux, for instance. See him behind the bench? Acting as GM? Of course not. As Dirty Harry said, a man's got to know his limitations.
Yet Gretzky remains for whatever reason hands off as far as the media is concerned. Except for some of us. Yours truly, in fact. Hate to be self-serving but so be it. Someone has to call Gretzky out. Read the entire piece or for the Gretzky part, scroll to the last three paragraphs.
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