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Originally Posted by Corral
Yup - others can correct me if i'm mistaken but i think Skalbania also owned the rights to Wayne Gretzky before he sold them to Pocklington.
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The story "I heard" was he lost him in a racquetball game.
I guess it was backgammon.
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"It all started in a private jet between Nelson Skalbania and Peter Pocklington, and it was a backgammon game with pretty high stakes as it turns out," said Larry Gordon, who was the Oilers' general manager in 1978. "Peter won that game and there was a wager made, some money exchanged hands and Wayne Gretzky, Eddie Mio and Peter Driscoll ended up in Edmonton Oilers uniforms.
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https://www.nhl.com/oilers/news/is-g...ction/c-430450