During an interview with Luc Robitalle on Inside Kings Hockey, former teammate of Lemieux’s and Gretzky’s, states that his favorite Kings jersey was the silver and black. And, to this day, lucky Luke thinks it was the color of the jersey that brought Wayne to LA. As a the new owner of Luc’s junior hockey team, Hull, Wayne changed the Colors from Blue and White to Silver and Black. Bruce McNull, originally thought of using NAvy and Silver;however, once he heard Luc Suggestion, to make it black, McNull faded it to black.
I guess that is something that is left out of the story books about Wayne’s journey south. I’m sure the trade prospects, the Money pocklington needed, and the fact that Gretzky’s new wife at the time, was a burgeoning Hollywood actress. At first glance, it appears that Luc is trying to be funny and is ignoring all of those facts when thinking of the Wayner coming to LA.
But then again, if anyone remembers Darren Pang talking about the Text message from Wayne Gretsky, he recieved during the winter classic, gushing over the Pens’ baby blue, maybe all Wayne needed was a jersey to be the tipping point. He was gone from LA a year after they adopted these burger king rag; He was in St. Louis for a year and they had ugly jersey, then an even uglier 3rd jeresy, before deciding to play out his career with the Rangers. Ugly team, but great uniform. Finally, when he joined the Pheonix ownership and got into Coaching, the Yotes’ got new uniforms.
Wow, it has to be true. When your the best player in the world of the 1980′s and ownerships are throwing all kinds of offers at you, I guess a jersey would be the deciding factor. Wayne wasn’t chasing dough, but rather, new threads when he went to play in LA.
-Inside Kings Hockey
