Posted AT 7:32 PM EDT on 22/02/06
Already a rough year for Gretzky
The year is only 54 days old, but it's already too long for Wayne Gretzky.
In the past two months, Gretzky has witnessed Canada's dream of back-to-back Olympic men's hockey gold medals flame out, a gambling scandal that engulfed his family and hockey team, the death of his maternal grandmother and the slide of his Phoenix Coyotes out of contention in the National Hockey League playoff race.
His mother Phyllis also succumbed to lung cancer in mid-December.
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