gretzky

Insert tired Gretzky quote about skating to where the puck is going....

You sound remarkably similar to what Wayne Gretzky said after he retired.

However, I'm sure one day Wayne Gretzky will quote Steve Jobs saying that he once said that you must skate to where the puck is going, not where it's been.

Factor them in and the Gretzky performance is even more remarkable.

When we consider p/g Gretzky has a 1.98 (great!) but the 250th on the list has.7 p/g, which is a 2.8x ratio.

So a lot of boys grew up with the idea that they were going to be Richard Feynman + Bill Gates + Wayne Gretzky rolled into one.

Wayne Gretzky missed 100% of shots he didn't take.

I still remember Wayne Gretzky talking about how we finally decided to retire.

When Gretzky played no other player could hit him because they didn't have the instigator rule, so if you clobbered him on the boards the biggest goons on his team would take your head off so the result was nobody touched Gretzky until late in his career when they put in that stupid rule.

Granted, Pat Burns got great results in 92/93 with a team full of scrubs when he took over the Leafs (don't get me started on that non-call on Gretzky in 92 that could have sent the Leafs to the finals), we haven't seen much legitimate excitement since then.

Steve Jobs (by way of Wayne Gretzky) called it "skating to where the puck is going to be".

Steve Jobs said that Wayne Gretzky said "skate where the puck is going, not where it's been".

That Wayne Gretzky quote - "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been" - really describes a major driver of Apple's success over the past fifteen years.

That's great and all but Gretzky was a center and so comparing his scoring against "average NHL players" is ludicrous.

You're comparing a fraction of Gretzky's contribution to a fraction of all the professional hockey players, even if you only look at forwards.

Are people who are not the best in a particular arena missing those genes they need to be Gary Kasparov, Randy Moss, Wayne Gretzky?

Just saying, if 250th of all-time are about half/a third the p/g of Gretzky, I find the 10x label lacking.