mae f. eee ga ‘All Seasons Soutce For Sports Presents | Players make the game | 3 Given his track record you might think we'd know better than to doubt Wayne Gretzky, but apparently that's not the case. His tour of Europe dodged a barrage of criticism and several attempis to scuttle yet sailed 7 smoothly over the Atlantic and began the way his hockey ventures usually do, with a win. And after a 7-1 thrashing of Finland's best club team, he was smiling as. though there had never bean any doubt. 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From the day he entered the National Hockey League, Gretzky has been proving people wrong. His detractors said he was too small to withstand the torturous _pace, When Gretzky had won a cauple of scoring championships, Bryan Trottier was said to be a more complete player. Later he was seen as a whiner to referees and a manipulator of management. Through It all he’s won .Cups and scoring § championships like no one else has. Yet even though he’s the person most responsible for the NHL's recent rise ta prominence in the United States, Gretzky met considerable _ resistance jaunching his locked out tour of Finland, Norway and Sweden. The feague put heat on sponsors and broadcasters not to take part in the event, Some f players, not on the team of course, questioned its composition and motives. “Everybody's trying to sabotage the tour,” said 99 as he prepared to leave for Helsinki. “But they're all taking this tour the wrong way. We're just trying to play hockey but we're going to go back to the NHL some day and these same people are going to be asking for favors and they're not going to understand when they don’t get them." The CBC agreed to televise two games but couldn't use the Hockey Night in Canada identity. Others wouldn't touch the tour, according to Gretzky, “| guess people aren't tired of watching bowling and pool yet.” When the team tuned up in Detroit, three Red Wing players didn't dress, respecting the f wishes. of their team’s owner, Mike Sllitch. The. Philadelphia The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 14, 1994 - B13; The Voice of by Jim Hughson Flyers wouldn't let two of their farmhands play against the All- Stars in an effort to belittle the game. Playing with only four defencemen and 10 forwards, the Gretzkys lost 4-3 to Detroit Vipers of the International Hockey League and looked so out of shape they seemed doomed to massacre against European teams that have been together since the summer, Yet Wayne and his merry men came off a marathon plane ride flying. The team Isn't the best the NHL could put together but they're all-stars in their own right made better by the presence of Wayne. While the games may not be like the Canada Cup, they're better than any others we can watch right now. As a matter of fact, it's hard to imagine a bad game that features Gretzky, Messier, Coffey, Kurri, Fuhr, Hut! and Fedorov. They may not like the attention he's getting or the point driven home that the players make the game, but the league and its officers should probably leave well enough alone when 99 decides he's going on tour. 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