Louisa Thomas writes about the run-up to hockey season, and interviews Wayne Gretzky on the deaths of Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau.
People like magic—kids, adults. Little ahs would bubble up from the crowd when he threaded an unexpected, perfect pass through someone’s legs or a gap the size of the puck. They talked about how he felt the flow of the game, how he had eyes in the back of his head. His own explanation, which has since become a kind of business-school catechism, came from his father, Walter: “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” It wasn’t magic; it was geometry, physics, vectors.
When he was coming up, teams were more concerned with stopping goals instead of scoring them. There were rules that slowed the pace down, and more of an emphasis on trapping. There was a lot of hooking and holding. Goalies stood up to stop shots, instead of mutating to block them. Equipment was rudimentary. Since then, some rules have been changed to open up the ice and allow for more offense, which, as Gretzky made obvious, is exciting. There is far more parity; every game is hard now.
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