Wayne Gretzky Remembers Gordie Howe | CONAN on TBS 

It’s very cool and very humble that Gretzky calls Gordie the greatest hockey player that ever lived. Both men great and class acts.

1:34 that blinking that Gretz mentioned was a facial tic from a head injury that Gordie suffered early in his career. In a game at the old Detroit Olympia Arena, Gordie missed a check and went crashing head-first into the boards, fracturing his skull. He nearly died, but made a full-recovery and went on to become the greatest hockey player ever (I'm from Michigan, so of course I say Gord's the greatest ;) ).

Thank you Conan for talking about hockey!

Wayne is a living legend

I think I'm remembering this correctly when I say that Gretzky said "A team of 5 Gordie Howe's beats a team of 5 Wayne Gretzky's," that humility and class and, most of all, TRUTH

Man i grew up in the same city wayne grew up in and his dad is a local celebrity around here. he's so kind and friendly, always stops and chats with you, one time he randomly gave me a calendar just because he enjoyed our conversation like hes legit such a great guy

I watch and play hockey because of Wayne Gretzky. He is my only celebrity idle and feel lucky enough to have seen him play. He's the best on and off the ice.

gordie howe ... nicest man off the ice ... meanest SoB on it

I Can Understand Why Canada Would See Wayne Gretzky as a National Treasure,Along With Michael J.Fox,They're Both Really Cool,&,Nice Guys

Wayne is all class

Such legendary players and good men.

Im from canada and am a huge red wings fan, my dads work set up an oilers red wings game, my dad was an oilers fan so it was a perfect work event to take me to, mr hockey was there and was my hero, i waited in line to get my white away detroit jersey signed, but he was there selling an autobiography or some book about him and i had no money to buy it so all i heard was "Get out of line kid" or something like that😅 shattered me at the time but funny to think back on

hockey GOAT Wayne

A legend filled to the brim with class.

Gretzky scored 894 NHL regular season goals to Howe's 801, but it is a fact that for much of Howe's career, the NHL only had a 60-70 game schedule, Gretzky had 80 per season every year except the lockout season. I was wondering how many goals Howe would have scored if he played with an 80 game schedule is entire career, so took the games he played, relative to the full schedule every year (ex: if he played 90% of his games in 70 games, that was 63, in 80, it would have been 72) and I gave him the same goal per game average he had in the season, for the entire 72. Yeah, I know this would not have been 100% accurate but it gives us a good idea of how many goals he would have had, guess what? He would have had roughly 1075... in fairness to Gretzky, I calculated that had the 94-95 season not been locked out, he would have scored roughly 7 more goals for 901. Wanna get technical? Well Howe played 6 years in the WHA where he scored another 174 g, it is a fact that the NHL was stronger, but if he played those years in the NHL and scored even half that many goals, that would have given him 87 more for 1162, Gretzky also, played one WHA season where he got 46 g so half that would be 23, giving 924. Conclusion? I think Howe was a much better goal scorer than Gretzky but Wayne benefitted from a better era in which to score goals.

1:25 he hits a line thats almost similar to norm macdonald, you can see the Canadian humor

Gordie Howe makes you proud to be a Red Wings fan

I remember Keith Magnusson defenseman for the Blackhawks and who idolized Gordie. Keith took boxing lessons, and karate etc. In the playoffs he challenged Gordie to a fight. Big mistake. Gordie mopped the ice with him. Gordie worked summers at the cement plant moving bags of cement around. Had wrists and forearms of steel. If Gordie grabbed you, there was no letting go and he worked you like a rag doll.

I played against his sons and after the game Gordie came into our locker room and signed a photo for every kid and shook our hands.

Gordie is the greatest of them all and he is still in 2023 the all time WHA/NHL goals scorer with 975, Wayne has 940 !!!

how is it possible to dislike this? who are you 13 miserable sad people... please go get some fresh air or something...

I love gordgi howe

9 in the morning until 9 at night. 99. Interesting.

Bobby Hull always called him Gordon Howe out of respect. RIP to both legends.

Anyone remember the cartoon he had, where I think there were 2 other sportstars in it. I think maybe a basketball player was 1 of them?

so early, I saw Larry King take birth

When athletes had class.

Why Lemieux was not there and why NHL never retired number 66.

TGO looks a LOT like George Washington.

Kid don't ... Take No I never will.

He was the nicest man. Until, you played against him. Wayne, Orr, and Gordie were the greatest.

Everybody here is talking about how he is a living legend, obviously none of you are coyotes fans, he ruined us 😞

It's Wayne Gritzky

Legend. Should get better dentures though. Would help with the mumbling. It's not like he couldn't afford the best just looking at his very understated watch! ;)

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Funny how the big 3 are the most humble guys. Howe, Orr and Gretzky

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Not only is Wayne "The Great One", he's also a great person...class on and off the ice!

Its beautiful to see how humble Gretzky is calling Gordie Howe the best player ever even thought most would regard him as the best.

when he said he was dead one dude started clapping...rip that dude's sex life

Gordie great human being & extremely nice guy. But on the ice was a killer. He took no prisoners on the ice & even at 52 yrs of age players feared him.

You can tell Wayne Grezsky is an athlete even in his old age you can stil see the body of a racehorse

The great one talking about the great one. Truly 2 gentlemen.

We can debate who the best is and all that. Gretzky is such a fantastic ambassador for the game of hockey!

Gordie was the athlete of the century.

9 and 99 great combo

Conan is entertaining, smart, he has a quick wit and a nice man too. Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafluer, Bobby Hull and some of those Russians were such great hockey players and are hockey legends.

A complete gentleman. Like Gordie. Humble, classy...bright. We should all take note. A deep subject. Unbringing is everything....some didn't do so well there. A fact of life....and why....we should never stop learning and growing...just my lousy 2c. Humble...the ticket, no matter how great you are. ;) Just what we see in the NBA. (it's a joke) Guys from Harlem making $15 mill. ?? ps...don't ya love those vids, 'celebrating too soon' ?? i love them. Nipped at the wire...big learning curve....but some never get it.

I was on the ice when I was 7yrs. old. Put me in the boards & gave me his famous wink & said this is how we play in the big time.

Gretzky's the best that's ever been, and it was the sports event of a lifetime for me when I saw him at Maple Leaf Gardens score 6 points, but enough of that Gordie Howe story already.

Thats the greatest!!!!

Next one guy Lafleur !!

LEGENDS.

Gordie Gretzky Orr the holy trinity.....Father, son, and holy ghost

Howe wasnt the nicest man. He would always cheap shot other players and try to hurt them. He hit Phil Esposito right in the face, on Esposito's first shift in the NHL, just to try and dominate him. Howe was a great player but he definitely was not a nice man. If players did that today, we would call them dirty players. Howe was a dirty player.