TSN: Today is the 30th anniversary of the Wayne Gretzky trade from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings.
“I don’t really talk about it much,” he said. “It happened. It is part of life and part of history. It seems like it was 10 years and then 25 years and now here we are at 30 years. I’m sure at 35 years I will get asked the same questions, but I don’t talk much about it. Everybody pretty much knows what transpired, and that is that.
“It was as much as a surprise to me as to anybody else that I was traded, but that is a part of sports.