#NHLVideos: OTD: Gretzky Scores 5x to Reach 50 Goals in 39 Games!

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1. What goals do you set for yourself?🐱

2. cap

3. He could never do that in today's game.

4. Looks like the film is 100 years old. Was film technology that bad in the 80's?

5. I could score 5 goals against dudes in sweatpants and a goalie using a soup ladel for a stick.

6. A great from the second he touched the ice

7. This why is is the goat🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🇨🇦🏒🥅⛸️

8. He could never do that in today’s game

9. Well when you’re playing against a bunch of dudes wearing sweatpants…

10. Willing to bet about none of those go in today. Unless Samsonov is in net lol.

11. The GOAT for real.

12. Never to be beaten 50 in 39 is insane

13. The goalies back in the day had hardly any padding/equipment.

14. Look at all those braves fools. Why the hell would you play such a physical sport that has ice and blades without any sort of head and neck protection? Brave, truly brave but stupid. I shudder at playing goalie without any head/ face protection.

15. For all you "he could never have done that today" naysayers, Gretzky won the scoring title one year (1085-86) by the widest margin (vs number of points from the #2 scorer) than any athlete in any professional sport. Gretzky had 215 points – next closest 141. That's more than 50% MORE POINTS than the next best player. Has that ever happened anywhere ever?

16. Imagine anyone in today's game playing with those goalies

17. Don Cherry was calling that game. SportsNet a few years ago fired him for calling-out fans who disrespected Canada's soldiers and Canada's great Western values that are what EVERYONE loves, but that many refuse to admit they love over the other destructive cultures of the world.

    Why else would people flee those cultures to cling to the promise of Western powerhouses like the US and Canada?

    So, yes, here's to one of the great coaches of NHL history, great TV personalities marketing the game to millions of fans for decades, and to a strong man who refused to stay quiet when resentful malcontents tried to further erode the very values their actions support in reality.

    Shame on anyone, including the NHL executives, who allow the fringe, hypocritical, minority of reactionary resentful souls to plant seeds of their evil ideology into the NHL's branding, copy, and messaging.

    You, the NHL, dare use his voice to celebrate a great moment in hockey history, as you have yet to defend Don Cherry when some turned against him unjustly and took his career from him.

18. Flyers rocking the roller pants! Style and flow

19. Even if I was cheering for the other team I would be so excited that that happens what a legend

20. It is easy to say look at the goaltending but to say that discredits all of the other players. There were some legendary players in the 80’s. One of the very best and severely underrated was Mike Bossy and none of these guys came close to Wayne. The only other guy who finally came along to dominate was Mario. For these two getting 4 or 5 points a game was nothing.

21. Would Gretskyscore as many goals with the equipment they have thats much bigger than when he played???

22. Watching gretzky play is so fun to watch. Its so different yet so interesting from modern day hockey.

23. Mcdavid

24. Love Wayne but he would never have all the records he does in this era of hockey. Look at the goalies padding and there movements 😂.

25. Goalies were so bad back then. Wonder how he woulda done todsy

26. The sad part was, a lot of my friends were haters and didnt get to enjoy it while living through it

27. Goalies have gotten so much better. Not a knock on 99.
    A big change being pad size which allowed for holding the glove hand higher making glove side tops harder

28. 🐐

29. Those Flyers defence men sure trusted their goaltender eh? Not once did they challenge the shots except for the empty net.