It’s a video highlight that already has the hockey scouts excited.
It was a stick-handling lesson from The Great One to The Next One heard around the world. Around the hockey world, anyway.
Every once in a while there’s a video you just know will be archived to be dusted off later. Posted on Instagram by Janet Gretzky, it shows all-time NHL leading scorer Wayne Gretzky playing some indoor shinny with his soon-to-be one-year-old grandson, Tatum Gretzky Johnson.
Grampa Gretzky and the tiny blond son of daughter Paulina Gretzky and her partner, PGA golfer Dustin Johnson, each have mini hockey sticks and knock around an orange street hockey ball.