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Gretzky picks proven winners

By Jim Kelley
ESPN.com

Saturday, May 15, 2004

In the hours before Wayne Gretzky and his Team Canada staff unveiled their World Cup team, the Great One told ESPN.com the selection process was all about one thing: picking the best Canadian team that could win. To the untrained eye, that may read like two things, but the Great One saw it as two criteria that in the end would produce one seamless entity, a Canadian team good enough to win the World Cup of Hockey. The tournament, which pits eight nations from around the world in an our-best vs ...

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