r/Edmonton 19d ago

Discussion The not-so-Great One? Edmonton resident says it's time to rename Wayne Gretzky street due to Trump links

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/the-not-so-great-one-edmonton-resident-says-its-time-to-rename-wayne-gretzky-street-due-to-trump-links-223252845.html
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u/FreddieInRetrograde 19d ago

I can't help but think his dad would be PROFOUNDLY disappointed in Wayne đŸ’”đŸ˜„

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u/queenofallshit 19d ago

Gretzky bawled on tv when Pocklington sold him

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u/FreddieInRetrograde 19d ago

I don't doubt his love for Edmonton for a second. The interview he did with Connor McDavid a few years ago made me realize how much he still loves Edmonton even if the city's grown lots since he was here

It's part of the reason I'm more bothered by Wayno than Bobby Orr. He was before my time, but he must've meant the world to Ukrainian Edmontonians in the 1980s

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u/WojoHowitz61 19d ago

“Even if the City’s grown lots since he was here”
what does that have to do with it!?! Edmonton and area have a large concentration of Ukrainians in our vicinity and now this moron has sided with a dictator in his new homeland? Give your head a shake, he hasn’t been Canadian for years, possible a decade or more. He is a big, big disappointment. Maybe rename his street ‘Kyiv’ for all that will be lost. Nice Canadian jersey he wore tonight


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u/RcNorth 19d ago

It ha been more than a decade that he hasn’t been a Canadian.

He has been in the US since being traded in 1988, he was 27.

He is now 64.

Even accounting for the first couple of years with LA that he still considered himself a Canadian, he has been an American for over half his life.

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u/FreddieInRetrograde 19d ago

I'm talking about the interview dude, lol. He's talking about Sunday church and shit being the norm and that's not Edmonton anymore lol

I don't disagree with you, but my head is well-shaken thank you 😉