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One-timer

By By Barry Melrose

Monday, August 5, 2002

He drew me to him. Wayne Gretzky was 17. It was 1978. He was playing for the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association. I was a defenseman for the Cincinnati Stingers, a teammate of Mark Messier's. Wayne had the puck. I went to challenge him. But there were no one-on-one battles with Wayne. It didn't work that way. He drew you to him. And as you closed in on him, you watched him put the puck right by you, right to the spot where you just were. Right to the spot where I just was. Right ...

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