Wayne Gretzky

Wayne Gretzky has to one of the greatest if not the best hockey player in the National Hockey Leagues history. He was adored by almost everyone, the exemptions being his opponents. Now, Mr. Reynolds you say how do I involve Mr. Wayne Gretzky into my math analysis report? Well it is easy, throughout the duration of Wayne's career he has accumulated many points. He also has one many awards and I'll give you little quizzes to tell how much you know about the great one. Wayne Gretzky hockey career started at a very early age. He was born on January 26, 1961. He was born in Brantford, Ontario. He was always a great hockey player even at the young age when we were all just rink rats. Back then could you guess what numero he was. Well the answer would be number 9. Why, number 9, well because there was a legendary guy that was named Gordie Howe that had the jersey with a number 9 on it. When the great one was ten years old he recorded 369 goals in his fifth year in hockey. Wow, my (meaning Mark Lawrence) greatest year of hockey I only had 67 goals and 32 assists. That was in about 40 games. But then you look at Wayne's younger times and it makes me look horrible. People looked at Wayne Gretzky with high expectations, and some knew that he was going to something very great one day. The only problem people thought of him was that he was too skinny and he had no beef to himself what so ever. Well all of his points throughout his career proved everyone wrong. His coming into the NHL was in 1978-1979 year. He had 51 goals and 86 assists in 79 games played. That adds up to a whooping 137 points total. In that rookie year he had 13 power play goals, one short handed goal, six game winning goals. He has 284 shots on goal. So that means his 284 shots with 51 goals he had a shooting percentage of 18 percent. Wow, that is whomping good. Then you say, hey then that guy has to be very aggressive, and racks in the penalty minutes. Don't you think? But, Hey now he only had 21 penalty minutes. That would be 8 minor penalties and one major penalty. Now, you know the other teams are in some trouble. You have a man that can score but also can keep his cool. Wow, well compare him to someone also great. Oh, what the heck we'll compare him to me. I had an average of 1.5 penalties per game this year or around 3 minutes in the box. If you put that into Wayne Gretzky rookie year then he should have gotten 237 penalty minutes instead of his 21. In the 1982-83 season Wayne accumulated his most penalty minutes he has ever had in a season. He had 59 penalty minutes in 80 games. The time spent in the box per game would then be .7375 minutes. If we change that into seconds that would be 44.25 seconds. Now we'll get away from that stupid penalty box I hate soo much. I will get into Wayne Gretzky records and some of his tremendous accomplishments. The great ones first goal was in 10-4-79. They were playing against the Vancouver Canucks. On December 30, 1981, (my mom's B-day), Mr. Huge obtained his fiftieth goal in only his 39 game against the Philadelphia Flyers. Wow that is a huge number! Now, Reynolds whose record did Waynoo beat and how long did it take them to get 50 goals. A. Mike Bossey, 50 goals in 50 games. B. Maurice the 'rocket' Richard, 50 goals in 50 games. C. Gordie Howe, 50 goals in 50 games. Will it be A, B, or C? What do you think? . It was actually A and B Mr. Reynolds. The great one demolished the sustaining record. If you do the Math it took him 11 less games to reach 50 then it took Maurice or Mike Bossey to reach 50 goals. Wow that was amazing, huh! Lets do up some Math with that then. Wayne's goals per game in that 39 game period would be 1.28 goals per game. Maurice and Bossey's goals per game were 1.00. Using Wayne's average he scored a little more then five goals in four games. Maurice and Bossey averaged out at exactly four goals per game. Wayne Gretzky won his first Stanley Cup in which year? A. 1982-1983 season B. 1981-1982 season C. 1983-1984 season D. 1984-1985 season The answer to that question would be the letter C. He won his first Stanley Cup in the 1983-1984 NHL hockey season. In his 19-playoff games he played in he recorded 13 goals and 22 assists. That would be 1.56 assist per game, .68 goals per game, or 2.24 points per game. That would be a great accomplishment when you are playing against the rest of the best NHL teams left in the playoffs. Wayne Gretzky won his first Conn Smythe trophy in the 1984-1985 playoffs. If you do not know what the Conn Smythe trophy is for Reynolds, I'll tell you. It is for the most valuable player in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. He won that along with the Stanley Cup again in the 1984-1985 season. My picture is of the first of four Stanley Cups the great one has one as an Edmonton Oiler. However, in the 1981-1982 Gretzky set single season-National Hockey League marks for goals (92), assists (120), and in points (212). Wayno the great unraveled his record in his first Conn Smythe year recording 135 assists. Now, it is enough to be a great scorer, but to be a playmaker this man was just unbearable. But, to top 135 assist to 163 the next year is incomprehensible. Wayne Gretzky won the Hart trophy nine times. He won eight in a row from 1979-80 season (his rookie year), till 1986-1987 season. Then he won the trophy again in the 1988-89 year. The Hart trophy is the most valuable player in the NHL. That was assome that he could be the most valuable player as a rookie. The goalies must be shivering in the pants. Their goals against average must be sliding above the roof with people like the great one as your opponent. Because if you were a goalie facing Wayne in his prime he was scoring around 20 percent of all the shots he took. That is one of every five