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When people come up to me and say, I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto, or, I saw your first goal in the NHL, that triggers memories. But I don't sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, You know, one year I got 92 goals.

Wayne Gretzky

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Wayne Gretzky
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 26
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