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...played for some very good Bruins teams, but both times he made it to the precipice, he ran into the juggernaut of the 1980s, the Edmonton Oilers. No team in that decade—not the Bruins, not anyone—could match the likes Wayne Gretzky, Jari Kurri, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, Glen Anderson, and Grant Fuhr...
...Trottier, Bossy and Gillies. Gretzky, Messier and Kurri. Stastny, Stastny and Stastny. Gretzky and any two guys...
...same time, the prosperity of the Oilers' Jari Kurri on the Gretzky line is significant. Sixty points (combined goals and assists) behind Gretzky but trying to shade him in goals, the right-winger has become the first European to score over 60 in an N.H.L. season. "We're instinctive," says Kurri of their partnership. Gretzky grins, "If someone else has a better opportunity, give it to him." Every angle of this geometry makes him rejoice...
Near the end of the session, Gretzky slips into a corner and vanishes. Concentrating on Finnish-born Right-Winger Jari Kurri, the Oilers' and the league's second leading scorer, Whitney half-steps out of the mouth of the goal to minimize Kurri's angle, and just then a puck plunks off his back into the net. Whitney says, "If you take your eye off Gretzky, he'll bank it off your skate, your back, your helmet, your wife. I could hang a nickel in the net, and he'd hit it every time." As majestic as the sight...
Accompanying Gretzky, the Oilers do have talent in unusual abundance: Kurri, Mark Messier (an all-star without benefit of ever playing on Gretzky 's line), Glenn Anderson, Paul Coffey. All of them are trying to perform at the level of Gretzky. He lifts them. Says Kurri: "It's very surprising to me that I'm playing with Wayne Gretzky and second in the scoring lead. But he plays up here, and so I try to play up there too. We don't mind losing some attention to him and his rec rds because he does...