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...second season with the Edmonton Oilers, Gretzky, 20, obeys the commandment. The 5-ft. 11-in., 165-lb. center is the most exciting one-man show in the sport. Little known outside the puck-hustling world, the Great Gretzky, as he is called by ice-rink railbirds, blows N.H.L. records like wildcat gushers on the Alberta plains...
Gretzky has long been a child of bright promise. His early ability to handle star turns began at age two, when Father Walter, a telephone company technician, flooded a piece of their Brantford, Ont., backyard to make a bumpy rink. Years of bruising youth games later, Gretzky's novice appearances were sellouts. Hockey greats like Montreal's Jean Beliveau came to marvel at his ability, and an amateur coach offered players $25 if they could stop the Great Gretzky. Apparently no one ever collected. Two years ago, Gretzky joined Edmonton, then part of the old World Hockey Association...
...three years before this season. His explanation is simple: "Hockey is fun, I like the guys on the team, and the coach is a helluva guy." Team captain Valiscenti, a four-year J.V. performer, offers a different view. He recalls the playing conditions of two years ago, when Watson Rink had not yet been renovated: "We practiced that year on an outside rink at Brown & Nichols at 8 a.m. every day. It got pretty cold out there, and the seniors on the team have not forgotten about it. It brought the team together...
ITHACA, N.Y.--Harried by a frenzied, overflow crowd of 4400 and the usual smattering of sleves and dead fish, the Harvard hockey team dropped a 7-3 decision to a fired-up, talented Cornell squad here at Lynah Rink Saturday night...
...near-miraculous playoff run ended here, beneath the wooden rafters of Lynah Rink. The icemen have two league games remaining--at Vermont and Dartmouth--but even a pair of wins won't mean much unless Yale and Cornell lose everything. Since they play each other next Saturday night, that isn't likely...