What if the gretzky rumour was true?

[tyler]

someone made this photo on my facebook. pretty well done. .... what if?

[shooker]

I say thank god we will never know. I puked three times after seeing that photo, couldn't imagine if it were true.

[tyler]

its ok bry .. they would still suck serious ballsack anyways. fuck the leafs.

[shooker]

its ok bry .. they would still suck serious ballsack anyways. fuck the leafs.

without gretz high sticking gilmour they would have had the cup right?

[tyler]

without gretz high sticking gilmour they would have had the cup right?

Only if you ask a leaf fan.

[MSP4LYFE]

its ok bry .. they would still suck serious ballsack anyways. fuck the leafs.

without gretz high sticking gilmour they would have had the cup right?

They likely would have made the Finals if not for that bs...SC? Who knows. All I know is that it's further than the Nucks have ever made it.

[Scott]

its ok bry .. they would still suck serious ballsack anyways. fuck the leafs.

without gretz high sticking gilmour they would have had the cup right?

They likely would have made the Finals if not for that bs...SC? Who knows. All I know is that it's further than the Nucks have ever made it.

zing

[Nick]

but you need to admit, he does look pretty good in the blue and white.

[shooker]

its ok bry .. they would still suck serious ballsack anyways. fuck the leafs.

without gretz high sticking gilmour they would have had the cup right?

They likely would have made the Finals if not for that bs...SC? Who knows. All I know is that it's further than the Nucks have ever made it.

zing

how is that a zing lol. We definatly havent made the cup finals before...and there is no need to talk about cups that none of us were alive for lol. All long suffering fans here.

[MSP4LYFE]

how is that a zing lol. We definatly havent made the cup finals before...and there is no need to talk about cups that none of us were alive for lol. All long suffering fans here.

It's true...We (Bruins, Nucks, Habs Leafs) are the jews, and this is the holocaust.

[jcarton]

its ok bry .. they would still suck serious ballsack anyways. fuck the leafs.

without gretz high sticking gilmour they would have had the cup right?

yup i think so

[Robin Hood]

whats the gretzky rumour?

[inferno31]

whats the gretzky rumour?

He wasn't going to resign with the Kings and it was a rumour he'd be coming to Toronto (Think it was around 96 season?). There were a lot of rumours floating around about him to a lot of teams, NYR, Detroit, St. Louis etc. after it was clear he was leaving the Kings.

Rumours were toronto had an offer on the table etc. Don't remember any more specifics.

[MSP4LYFE]

Just when you thought it wasn't possible to hate Harrold Ballard any more than you already did...

Behind the boards, away from the lights, two of the NHL's most infamous owners concocted a deal to alter the fabric of the hockey cosmos.

No deal had ever equalled it. None has approached its audacity since.

The Leafs for the Oilers. Almost. In the 1980s.

Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Jari Kurri and the rest of the young Edmonton Oilers nearly ended up in Toronto in a $50-million blockbuster swap of the two entire teams hatched by Harold Ballard, then-owner of the Maple Leafs, and Peter Pocklington, then-owner of the Edmonton Oilers, a new book claims.

"Ballard would move his fading Leafs to boomtown Edmonton, while Peter would bring his up-and-coming Oilers to Toronto — provided, of course, that he also wrote Ballard a cheque for $50 million," says the book, I'd Trade Him Again, a Pocklington biography written by Terry McConnell and J'Lyn Nye in collaboration with Pocklington.

But the deal fell through.

"Ballard backed out. He was a crazy old bugger," Pocklington says in the book. "I was actually pretty excited about it . . . I would have made a fortune in Toronto."

Pocklington did leave his mark on hockey history. He's forever known for The Trade — the famed August 1988 deal that sent Gretzky to Los Angeles from Edmonton.

Pocklington admits in the book that he wrestled with his own emotions over the Gretzky trade.

"It took me nine weeks to kind of get over the emotional shock of 'Do I really want to do this?'"

The Gretzky trade paled in comparison to swapping the Leafs for the Oilers.

Pocklington says he doesn't know why Ballard wanted the deal.

The book speculates the 77-year-old Leafs owner was looking for some quick cash because he was deep in debt and faced losing Maple Leaf Gardens. The book says Ballard may have passed on the swap after he struck a deal with Molson Brewery to pay off his bank debt.

"For Peter, the benefits were more long term. For Ballard they were immediate," says the book. "For fans in Toronto, it might have meant a whole bunch of Stanley Cups were on the horizon. The only ones bound to lose out were the fans in Edmonton."

Edmonton fans would have cried more than 99 tears. Infinitely more.

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