“I hate it. In my opinion, it has to be like baseball – the player has 7-8 seconds to pitch.
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We would hate to even rotate the club on the bench. I understand that now is a different time. But I believe there should be dignity in the game.
If I did something like that, then 20 guys from the other team would jump off the bench. If you don’t reach the door in 8 seconds, you don’t deserve to be shot,” Gretzky said as quoted by TNT.
Source: Sport

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