Gretzky scored 51 goals that season -- the first of his nine 50-goal seasons, an NHL record he shares with Ovechkin and Mike ...

BOSTON — Hockey Hall of Famer and two-time Hart Trophy winner Bobby Hull was posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic ...

Theresa Weld Blanchard wins her sixth and final U.S. figure skating championship. Sherwin Badger captures his fifth straight and final men’s title. 1928 — Sonja Henie, ...

When Peter Pocklington cajoled, threatened and bought his WHA Oilers (and star forward Wayne Gretzky) into the National Hockey League in 1979, the expansion fee was $6 million. Forty six years ...

C Wayne Gretzky, Oilers (1979-80): The Great One began ... He wasn't technically considered a rookie after spending a year in the WHA, but we're counting him anyway. LW Alex Ovechkin, Capitals ...

Wayne Gretzky spent his entire professional hockey career (20 seasons in the NHL and one in the WHA) rewriting the record books. When ‘The Great One’ retired following the 1998-99 season ...

Five years later, he returned home from the Indianapolis Racers with 321 WHA games under his belt, missing out by a couple of years on the arrival of one Wayne Gretzky. Not that this would have fazed ...

Wayne Gretzky’s name is scribbled throughout the ... but having played in the WHA, the NHL didn’t consider The Great One a rookie making way for Selanne to set the mark 13 years later.

As Wayne Gretzky prepares to take office on Monday as the first Canadian-born president of the United States since the 2026 ...

As Alex Ovechkin continues his pursuit of Wayne Gretzky's NHL goals record, former New York Islanders defenseman Darius Kasparaitis is helping him stay fresh. In a Telegram post on Friday, Ovechkin ...