1.   But it is difficult to imagine him as a healthy scratch in view of his status as what many consider the greatest hockey player ever.

2.   But the team that Gretzky announced Saturday still reads like the greatest Olympic hockey team ever assembled.

3.   Gretzky was the greatest hockey player ever and won four Stanley Cups but never one without Messier.

4.   Gretzky may be the greatest hockey player ever, but around here there are few reminders that he ever was a King.

5.   He is defending against Wayne Gretzky, the greatest hockey player ever.

6.   He just happened to spend most of his career in a town graced by the greatest hockey player who ever lived.

7.   It will be up to future generations to decide whether The Great One really was the greatest hockey player of all time.

8.   It would be hard to find anyone more passionate about work than Gretzky, the greatest hockey player who ever lived.

9.   One man, with a lot of money to spend, dreamed of bringing the greatest hockey player in the world to our city and did.

10.   Orr was the greatest hockey player who ever lived.