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- Wayne Gretzky scored his first goal
- when he was 2 years old. He shot a
- sponge ball right through the legs of
- the goaltender, who just happened to
- be his grandmother. You wonΓÇÖt see it
- listed in his all-time career record of
- NHL goals, but it was the first indi-
- cation of many such goals to come.
-
- He also began skating at 2. As a
- teenager, Wayne described his speed
- on the ice as "brutal," meaning slower
- than slow. All of the speed in the family
- must have gone to WayneΓÇÖs younger
- sister, Kim. She was an Ontario speed
- skating champion!