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1. Wayne Gretzky Hockey
   Released on the Amiga back in 1989, Wayne Gretzky Hockey was a great little game of hockey. In an 1989 issue of games magazine "Games Player's" and in its Amiga review, it mentioned that a C64/128 version was being planned for release that year. It is hard to imagine EA doing a game so late into the 80's when you consider they practically left the C64 market early on to go onto the 16-bits.
2. Wayne Gretzky Hockey -- World
   Wayne Gretzky retired from professional hockey as a New York Ranger on April 18, 1999. In addition to the NHL, and his considerable charity work, he has made Canadians proud on the world stage - particularly as Executive Director of Team Canada for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Additionally, Gretzky is part owner of the Phoenix Coyotes.
3. Wayne Gretzky Hockey -- Team Canada
   Wayne Gretzky was named the greatest player in National Hockey League history by The Hockey News in 1998. Among his accomplishments: he was the NHL's all-time leading scorer, he was named league MVP nine times and he led the Edmonton Oilers to four Stanley Cups in five years from 1984-88. Gretzky made hockey somewhat of a Hollywood fad when he was traded to Los Angeles in 1988, and he finished his career with the New York Rangers, playing his last NHL game on 18 April 1999. Later that year he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame (the usual three-year waiting period was waived in his case), and the NHL retired his jersey number, 99, permanently throughout the league. In 2000 Gretzky joined the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes as a managing partner. Five years later, in 2005, he moved behind the bench as the team's head coach.
4. Edmonton Oilers -- Stanley Cup
   Founded in 1972 the Edmonton Oilers are one of the most successful NHL franchises in history, winning five Stanley Cups in six years from 1983-1990. In those Cup years the Oilers boasted one of the most talented lineups in the NHL with players like Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier.
5. Victoria -- Vancouver Island
   The Victoria Golf Club has been the site of the Courtnall Celebrity Classic (which raised $2 million to fund a treatment centre for Mental Illness). The golf-and-gala weekend has featured Island-native Pamela Anderson, Wayne Gretzky, Keifer Sutherland, Debra Unger, Alan Thicke and a host of NHL and NFL players.
6. St. Louis Blues -- Teams
   The history of the St. Louis Blues has been short but successful. The franchise got its start as an expansion team in 1967. Immediately, the team showed promise and managed to make the Stanley Cup Finals each of its first three years. From 1979 to 2001 the Blues reached the post season 21 times in a row. Over the years, hockey greats like Jacques Plante, Dale Hawerchuk, and Wayne Gretzky have played in St. Louis. Nonetheless, the Blues are still searching for their first ever Stanley Cup.
7. Stanley Cup -- Games
   On May 2, 2007, the Stanley Cup arrived in Kandahar on a Canadian Forces C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. Seventeen former players played a ball hockey game versus Canadian soldiers on a concrete rink in the Afghan desert.
8. Los Angeles Kings -- Los Angeles Kings Tickets
   Since the team came into the league in 1967, fans that purchase Los Angeles Kings tickets have seen a team that remains competitive every year, but unable to fid the key to a Stanley Cup Championship. Although located in an area dominated by outdoor sports like football and baseball, the sale of Kings tickets has remained high and fan support has remained strong since the teams first games. When Wayne Gretzky joined the team in 1989... the sale of Kings hockey tickets took off like never before, as the interest in hockey in California skyrocketed.
9. Russ Conway -- Alan Eagelson
   Russ Conway has worked at the Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence, Massachusetts, since 1967. For more than five years, he pursued the details of this fascinating story, an investigation that focused increasingly on the activities of Canada’s Alan Eagleson, once regarded as the most powerful figure in professional hockey. Conway’s series for the Eagle Tribune, “Cracking Ice,” from which this book was developed has been at the heart of the FBI and US Justice Department investigations that led to the 1994 indictment of Alan Eagleson.
10. Michael Jordan -- Retirement
    After Jordan's Retirement, Michael Jordam went to the University of Hogwart to study witchcraft at the age of 68. He hasn't been set yet, excluding his first starring role in the porno, Shafting for 23.

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