LA Kings went to black jerseys because Gretzky liked the Raiders?! ​⁠@Discover #DiscoverPartner

What was the excitement level like when Gretz came? Like it was so crazy and like interviewing Wayne about it, it’s really cool to hear how it went down. But for you and the guys here, it’s like oh my god, like we I don’t think Gretz knows that, but in February of that year, like Gretz won the cup in Edmonton. February that year, Bruce McN, we had the Allar game in St. Louis and I was coming back and my dad was on the plane and he said, “I think I got a chance at getting Gretzky.” And we’re like this like oh yeah, all right, Bruce, we’ll go to LA and and we’re we’re looking at things. And then right around that time he was going to change the Kings colors and it was going to be if you look at the this jersey and it’s in black. Everything was the same, but it was dark blue. Bruce McN’s color of his company was a very dark blue. So I I look at it, I’m like, “Oh, that’s really cool.” And I said, “Oh, that’s really cool, Mr. McDonald.” But I said, “You should see my junior team.” I said, “We had the same, but it was black.” And I said, “That was Gretzky changing because he liked the Raiders.” I I just said that in like January, not thinking anything cuz you knew. And then when I went the All-Star game, they saw somehow there was a film of in Junior and and Bruce saw it, but he was trying to get Gretz. I don’t think Gretz knows that, but I think Bruce was like, “If Gretzky designed those jersey in junior, those it’s the same jersey we had in junior, different logo.” Wow. That one year only like uh that one year like before that we were another color. He’s like, “Why the hell are you on the house?” So he says, he says, “We’re going to get grit.” I’m like, “Yeah, sure.” And and then July comes in and he had said to me and Jimmy Carson I think he had not douche but I think he had told Jimmy and myself were never trading you know like we were really young though. I think at some point Jimmy went to Bruce when he when it was there was a buzz internally for us that Gretz had a chance and I think Jimmy went to to Bruce and said if Wayne comes maybe I should get traded because really well we had Bernie too so he would have been a third line center. I think Jimmy Carson was really smart that cerebral smart you know he was he was investing in stock at 18. I was like, “What is that computer?” And you know, he knew about Microsoft like what is that you know? Wow. You know, so and I think Jimmy said it might be better for his career to be moved at that time. Wow. You know, so so then when we got grats, it was like the crowd immediately superstar. But McN was so good at promoting like he made sure there was celebrities and I think they had dinner before the game. Then Bruce would take him in our room before warm up or many times

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