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Originally Posted by Bleeding Red
Wouldn't that have come much later - 1997-98 - when Gretzky was deciding where to go after STL? He ended up on NYR.
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Oh no, that story is much worse. Gretzky and Pat Quinn had a great conversation and were going to resume in the morning, after Gretz had time to weigh the offer vs the huge one given by San Jose (NYR hadn't made an offer at this point). But he said he was very interested in the deal (Canucks had a pretty strong forward group at this time in Bure, Mogilny, Linden etc)
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Then the following happened: John McCaw's right hand man, and known ####-wit, Stan McCammon forced Quinn to call Gretzky that same night at 130am local time and demand a yes or no answer then and there.
Unshockingly he said no. A week or something later he was a Ranger. Quinn was fired and the Canucks made the massive mistake that was ####face Messier.