Wayne Gretzky finds a defender in the legend of hockey after criticism

Hockey legend Bobby Orr, Wayne Gretzky’s defense in an Op-ed as a “big” on Saturday, “Great” team received a flake to appear as an honorary captain of Canada 4 The end of the nation.

This Most of the criticism Gretzky’s President Donald Trump came with visible support. Gretzky, Trump was seen as a victory in Florida, when he won the 2024 presidential election, and he was in the inauguration ceremony in January. Trump also insulted the Canada by calling Justin Trudeau “Governor of 51”. Trump even sailed the idea that Gretzky became the next governor of Canada.

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New York Rangers’ Wayne Gretzky scores a goal scoring against the stars in Dallas on November 7, 1997. (AP Photo / LM Otero, File)

Orr wrote Toronto Sun He said he was “disappointed” because he read criticism of “from the biggest Canadians ever.”

“Someone who made so much time and effort to Canadian hockey can be naughty,” Orr column. “We all have personal beliefs because they belong to such things like religion and politics. Wayne respects such beliefs – why can’t you respect him?”

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Canadian retired professional hockey player Wayne Gretzky, on January 2025, came to the opening of the President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington. (Via Saul Loeb-pool Imagn images)

Along the professional career of Orr, Gretzky stressed philanthropic movements against Canada, along the professional career.

“Please, a time of time. Several grace and a good respect to a good man and a great Canada.”

Gretzky did not speak in one way or another About Trump’s Support.

“I was with Wayne Gretzky. I said: Wayne would you like to be the Governor of Canada? “I can’t imagine nobody’s better than Wayne,” Trump said at the Mar-A-Lago press conference earlier this month.

Wayne Gretzky, Pebble Beach, California, Smoking in AT & T Pevble Beach Pro on February 8, 2020. (Michael Madrid-USA sports today)

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“Wayne was not very interested. But he probably could like the statehood,” Trump said. “He is my friend. He is a great man. He is an excellent one. We call him a big name, right? It’s a big hockey player.”

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