I'd normally be the first guy to throw Gretzky under the bus. He got caught gambling illegally and somehow managed to pin it on his wife and bizarrely, Rick Tocchet. No excuses for that one, he should have gone to prison for it.
He's at a stage now where I don't think he's capable of defending himself in public. I don't know how privy people are to his untreated alcoholism, but he's at Oilers games all the time absolutely blitzed. This has been going on for years. I doubt the guy lives another five years, as sad as that is to say. He's drinking himself to death.
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