Wayne Gretzky's Best Man

Alright. So this is post 1654 amongst all the blogs that make up the Greatest Hockey Legends.com network. Though that number has absolutely no real significance to me or to the site, I felt I needed a special post, about a special player.

Wayne Gretzky's had a lot of friends in hockey. So who did he pick as his best man at his almost-royal wedding? Mark Messier? Kevin Lowe? Jari Kurri? Dave Semenko? Steve Kasper? Hey, the Bruins told their ace checker to follow Gretzky everywhere, so it's conceivable he would be right beside him in the chapel anyways. Uncomfirmed reports even suggested Kasper was seen on a beach shadowing #99 on his honeymoon.

No, Wayne Gretzky (wearing his special wedding "tuck"xedo, of course) asked none other than Eddie Mio to be his best man. What could be more special than that?

Eddie Mio was a colorful, wisecracking goalie. He wasn't the best goalie in the league, but he was perhaps the wittiest.

Eddie was playing in Indianapolis of the WHA when he first met Wayne Gretzky. At the time Gretzky was a 17 year old phenom about to make his professional debut.

"How you gonna feel, playing with a star like that?" a reporter asked Mio.

"Ask HIM," he sniffed, "how he's gonna like playing with Eddie Mio."

The answer to that question was Gretzky liked it very much. The two became best friends.

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