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Author:  icehound [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:53 am ]
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Courtesy of Faceoff.com:

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Gretzky doc reveals details of the trade that changed hockey forever

"National borders evaporate in Kings Ransom. There is no U.S. and Canada - just a smallish northern city losing an iconic star the people have embraced as one of their own, a native son, and a southern city of eight million people built on glitter and Hollywood glamour. A young Lloyd Robertson is shown breaking the news to a nation on CTV, and Knowlton Nash on CBC. In Los Angeles, the Kings go overnight from selling 5,000 seats a game to selling out the arena for an entire season. There are heroes and villains and, yes, in the end, regrets."

Great article about Peter Berg's film documenting one of the most stunning and saddening, and simultaneously revitalizing, trades in the history of Hockey; Pocklington's trade of Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings.

If you haven't seen it, yet....Find a way to see it. I've got it DVR'd. It's a keeper.

It's been featured on ESPN's 30 for 30 series, and will premiere Wednesday, Nov. 18 on TSN at 7:30 p.m.
Author:  Howie Hodge [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:44 pm ]
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Awesome series. The Ali - Holmes one was touching as well.
Author:  fly as hale [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:56 pm ]
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I don't have TSN. :(
Author:  icehound [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:19 pm ]
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Author:  Los9090 [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:19 pm ]
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Well, at least the Oilers won another Cup without Gretzky
Author:  End The Curse [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:31 pm ]
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What's interesting to me is that Gretzky to this day has no regrets about leaving Edmonton for LA and would do it all over again. Something about him seemed less likable to me in after watching the show, like he was more LA Wayne and less Edmonton Gretzky. I didn't realize that he already had made LA his permanent home prior to the trade, and I found him a bit callous towards the people and city of Edmonton.

Maybe it's just me. I would have liked for him to have said in a perfect world he would have been a career Oiler, and instead he said the opposite.
Author:  PuckSniperPensel [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:39 pm ]
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End The Curse wrote:
What's interesting to me is that Gretzky to this day has no regrets about leaving Edmonton for LA and would do it all over again. Something about him seemed less likable to me in after watching the show, like he was more LA Wayne and less Edmonton Gretzky. I didn't realize that he already had made LA his permanent home prior to the trade, and I found him a bit callous towards the people and city of Edmonton.

Maybe it's just me. I would have liked for him to have said in a perfect world he would have been a career Oiler, and instead he said the opposite.


It wasn't a knock on the fans of Edmonton.

I read his autobiography, and a lot of screwed up things went on in that franchise that made him uncomfortable.

He wasn't a very big fan of Glen Sather or Peter Pocklington for a few reasons.

For one, he saw Sather as a manipulative person, who ripped off a lot of his team mates by convincing them to negotiate without managers, acting all buddy buddy, then bending them over during the meetings.

Pocklington, at one point, bought diamonds for everybody on the team, including the equipment managers and stick boys.

The only thing was, the size of each diamond represented each persons' importance to the organization in his eyes.

So while Gretzky got this huge freaking thing, some of his team mates got table scraps.

I'd feel a little awkward about that, too.

Gretzky had made his permanent home in L.A. while he was in Edmonton because his wife was an actress, and needed to stay there to continue her career.
Author:  Skyline_BNR34 [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:36 pm ]
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I was at work and they were showing it on ESPN there.

Never knew what it was but I was watching bits of it that I could. I'll need to somehow find it at some point.
Author:  icehound [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:40 pm ]
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It's due to be released on DVD, in time for Christmas.

If I can figure how to upload it from DVR to Youtube, without pissing anyone off...I'll try to.
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