After Wayne Gretzky retired, the selection committee announced that he would be the 10th player in league history who did not have to wait three years after retirement to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The committee was concerned that eliminating the wait time for no reason would create a “god class.” It was then decided that the “quarantine” would only be lifted in “certain humanitarian circumstances”.
Pavel Bure spoke about Hasek’s criticism of Russian athletes
“If the exemption were still in effect, Sidney Crosby and Ovechkin would be among the best of their generation,” the ESPN article reads.
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