Gretzky trade by the numbers 2 hours after the Oilers won the 1988 Stanley Cup, Gretzky reportedly learned from his father that the Oilers were trying to trade him. 4 months after the release of actress Janet Jones’ Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach that Jones and Gretzky got married. 24 days after Gretzky’s marriage to actress Janet Jones he was traded to Tinseltown. 27 Gretzky’s age at the time of the trade. 1975 year the Milwaukee Bucks sent Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the L.A. Lakers, and the last year a superstar even close to Gretzky’s magnitude had been traded in his prime. 21 NHL teams at the time of the trade. 30 NHL teams now, including two more in California (Anaheim, San Jose) and third in the American West (Arizona). 22 million dollars and 5 first-round draft choices, the Oilers’ reported asking price to the Vancouver Canucks for Gretzky. 15 million dollars included in the trade, the most important piece going the other way for ’88 Oilers owner Peter Pocklington. 25.9 million dollars, the value of $15 million (1988) today, factoring in inflation. 1 million dollars, Gretzky’s annual salary (roughly) at the time of the trade. 4 years left on the Great One’s undervalued deal at the time. 9 Stanley Cup rings, combined, on the fingers of the players the Oilers traded away. 8 Hart trophies Gretzky won as an Oiler. 1 Hart Trophy Gretzky won as a King. 11,667 average attendance at pre-Gretzky Kings games in 1987-88 (16,005 capacity). 14,875 average attendance at Kings games in 1988-89. 3 seasons of Gretzky hockey before the Kings sold out every game in 1991-92. 1,199 regular-season points, combined, Wayne Gretzky, Marty McSorley and Mike Krushelnyski scored for the L.A. Kings. 281 of them scored by Krushelnyski and McSorely. 223 regular-season points, combined, Jimmy Carson and Martin Gelinas scored for the Edmonton Oilers. 6 games Gelinas played for the Oilers in 1988-89. 40 points Gelinas scored in 1990-91, his most productive campaign as an Oiler. 55 goals Carson scored for the Kings in 1987-88. 50 goals Carson scored in 84 games played for the Oilers in 1988 and ’89, before demanding a trade (to Detroit); among other reasons, Carson felt pressure to replace Gretzky. 1,177 career NHL points by Luc Robitaille, the player — over Carson — the Oilers originally requested in the trade 1993 year Carson returned to L.A. to play with Gretzky. 92 goals Carson scored as a teenager, an NHL record. 86 games played by Carson in 1992-93, a single-season record achieved during the year he returned to the Kings to play with Gretzky. 14 goals scored, total, by Carson in his second stint with L.A. 3 first-round draft picks the Oilers acquired in the Gretzky deal. 6 NHL games played by Jason Miller, the 1989 first-round pick acquired by the Oilers but traded to the Devils prior to the draft. 2 games played for the Oilers by 1991 first-rounder Martin Rucinsky, who was traded to Quebec for goalie Ron Tugnutt and prospect Brad Zavisha. 14 age of Whitney when he (along with brother Dean and future Oiler Ryan Smyth) severed as a stick boy for Gretzky’s ’80s-era Oilers. $100 amount on a cheque received by young stick-boy Whitney in 1988 from Wayne Gretzky Enterprises (he never cashed it) 1 combined post-trade Stanley Cup won by Gretzky, Krushelnyski and McSorley (Krushelnyski as an assistant coach with the 1998 Detroit Red Wings). 1 Peter Pocklington burned in effigy outside Edmonton’s Northlands Coliseum. 1 year after the trade a life-size bronze statue of Gretzky was erected outside Northlands Coliseum. 4 major motion pictures McSorley appeared in from 1995 to 1997: Do Me a Favor, Forget Paris, Bad Boys and Con Air.