So would Wayne Gretzky have been the phenom he was in a warmer world?
Don't know, he probably would have just spent a lot more time at the local indoor rink, honing his genius hockey skills there.
Today, there's no ice in Wayne Gretzky's backyard - in fact there isn't even snow. Instead, there's just big, fat, warm raindrops.
Walter Gretzky's, Wayne's dad opines:
"... as a boy, he could skate for miles on the Nith River, which flows by that old farm – 'skate until you hit rapids,' he laughs – but lately the river rarely freezes over. And even when it does, you wouldn't dare risk stepping out on it.
Winters are warmer now,” he says. “There's no ice."
Maybe this is why we're seeing more and more imports from outside of Canada making it big in the NHL?
