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Throughout his early years, Dale Hawerchuk was constantly facing comparisons to the game’s greatest player, Wayne Gretzky. Mike Doran, the Winnipeg Jets’ Director of Player Personnel in 1981, once said, “He has the same instincts, that puck sense, of Gretzky.” Hawerchuk would not disappoint his fans, leading his team in scoring at every age. Dale Hawerchuk was born on April 4, 1963, in the Rexdale area of Toronto. At an extremely early age his parents, Ed and Eleanor, moved the family to Oshawa. Dale received his first pair of skates at age two and, as his father put it, “He was skating...