My editor informs me, between snaps of the whip, that our series on Canadian greatness will be asking readers to imagine the heroes-to-be that may be attending kindergarten now — including the “next Wayne Gretzky.” Imagination isn’t one of my strongest qualities: I wonder what a “next Wayne Gretzky” would even look like, what kind of phenomenon that would be.

We’ve seen some of his records come under attack since he retired a quarter-century ago, while others remain at inaccessible interstellar distances. We’ve seen players with more ostentatious abilities — players whom some general managers might even choose over 99 in an all-time All-Star game in which everyone showed up as the magically restored prime versions of themselves. There are a lot of folks out there who would take Lemieux ov

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