If you follow the NHL, you know that for the first time, there is a player with a real shot at challenging one of Wayne Gretzky’s numerous career records. Alex Ovechkin is 140 goals shy of the Great One’s 894, and at age 36, it’s pretty much a coin flip whether he gets to that mark or not. Should he not get to 895, I don’t think there’s any shame in that, ending up falling just short of the greatest of all time to do it.
Enter Mariano Rivera, who among relief pitchers is pretty much Wayne Gretzky.