Streaks - Wayne Gretzky Traditional Cache
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One of the most difficult challenges for geocachers is a significant streak of consecutive days finding caches. It takes a lot of patience and tremendous will power to sustain a significant streak.
This series of caches is dedicated to the daily streakers. A quick park and grab to keep the streak going. Good luck!!
Note: The road to this cache has been rerouted, but you can still get to there.
There are many impressive streaks in sports and I wanted to highlight some of those accomplishments with caches in the streak series.
*** Wayne Gretzky ***
Wayne Gretzky's 51 consecutive games of scoring at least one point, beginning on opening night of the 1983-84 season. On January 27, 1984, Wayne Gretzky’s 51-game scoring streak with the Edmonton Oilers was halted.
The feat is still a modern day NHL record and, oddly enough, the streak was stopped by the Los Angeles Kings, who Gretzky was traded to four seasons later. While Gretzky’s totals that season are nothing short of ridiculous (87 G, 207 PTS), the 51-game streak is even more impressive when considering that it included 61 goals and 92 assists for a total of 153 points – which would have been enough to win the scoring title that year. Playing an important role in the ending of that famous streak was the Los Angeles Kings' Dave Taylor. About a week earlier, Taylor slammed Gretzky with a devastating but clean hit. Gretzky suffered a severe shoulder bruise. Had his record breaking streak not been on the line, Gretzky almost certainly would have stopped playing. But he soldiered on, extending the streak by three games (including a 2 goal, 4 point, 1 armed performance against Vancouver in game 50). After getting shutout in game 52, Gretzky did sit out the next six games to recover from the injury. But, as the league's biggest draw, Gretzky still participated in the annual All Star Game first!
Gretzky returned from the injury and scored points in 20 out of the 22 remaining games. He finished that season with an unthinkable 87 goals, 118 assists and 205 points in 74 games. In the amazing 51 game scoring streak he registered 61 goals and 92 assists for 153 points! By the way, the record of 51 consecutive games with a point could be considered to be even higher.
Gretzky's 51 straight games was from the start of the 1983-84 season. But he ended the previous season with a 10 game point scoring streak. Shouldn't the record be considered 61 games?
Here are a few more interesting numbers from Gretzky's amazing streak and season:
•Twice Gretzky scored 8 points in a single game during the streak - 3 goals, 5 assists against New Jersey and 4 goals and 4 assists against Minnesota. He also had 7 points against Winnipeg, 6 against Quebec and 5 points on seven occasions (plus twice more after the streak ended).
•Gretzky barely extended the streak to 44 games. In that 44th game he scored an empty net goal with just two seconds left in the game. It was his only point of that night.
•Gretzky scored his 50th goal of the season in game 42. He had his 100th point in game 34!
•The Oilers went 1-5 and were outscored 38-19 in the six games Gretzky missed.
•The Oilers would win their first Stanley Cup that spring.
Including playoff goals, Wayne Gretzky scored 100 goals that season.
Wayne Gretzky holds or shares 61 NHL records: 40 for the regular season, 15 for the Stanley Cup playoffs and six for the NHL All-Star Game.
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