I'm not from Brantford, but I'm from SOnt, and he was a god to a kid in the 80s. I remember fighting every ounce of my energy trying to stay up to watch the late night games as a little tiny kid. I remember saying as a 3 or 4 year old that I'm going to Edmonton when I grow up, I'm going to work and watch Wayne Gretzky (and it's funny how that almost actually played out, but I got the wrong city). It breaks my fucking heart. You broke our hearts Wayne. Never meet your heroes they say, and it's a funny saying because most of my heroes have actually turned out to be pretty stand up in person too. All but one.

Brantford is the most MAGA place in Canada outside of Alberta. Worst drunk driving and domestic violence rates in Southern Ontario.

Lemieux still isn't the goat. Gretzky sucks hot ass, fuck the guy thoroughly and completely. But you can't take his stats away. There's plenty of athletes who have done impressive feats of athleticism and are still total pieces of shit.