a day that literally changed NHL hockey...

thirty seven years ago,the Edmonton Oilers traded their best player,Wayne Gretzky,to the Los Angeles Kings... then-Oilers' owner Peter Pocklington became public enemy number one,in Edmonton,and,even thirty seven years later,if you mention Pocklington's name,you probably still get a curse thrown at you... the Oilers had just won their fourth Stanley Cup,in the last five years,that summer...