Today, a look at how the legendary Wayne Gretzky got his start skating ... Maurice "Rocket" Richard in 1944-45 and equaled by Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders in 1980-81.

When I was a kid, in the pre-Wayne-Gretzky days, there were two goliaths in the NHL: New York Islanders right winger Mike Bossy, and Montreal Canadiens right winger Guy Lafleur. Both Lafleur and ...

Wayne Gretzky just turned 60 years old ... That would put Only-After-Age-30 Gretzky behind only Lemieux, Bobby Orr and Mike Bossy for career points per game. Gretzky could’ve ended his career ...

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

Only CHL alumni Wayne Gretzky (424 games), Mario Lemieux (513), and Mike Bossy (656) did it faster. The Richmond Hill, ON., native is the 99th player in NHL history to reach 1,000 points and did ...

With the effort, McDavid posted his eighth consecutive 90-point season -- Mike Bossy (9) and Wayne Gretzky (13) are the only players in NHL history with longer such streaks. In 54 games ...

Yet there's only one player in NHL history that was a teammate to both Wayne Gretzky and Alex Ovechkin. His name is Mike Knuble, a winger who played 16 hardscrabble seasons in the NHL. And he was ...