Vandalism wasn't encouraged, but someone did do that to the Great One in Brantford, the day after unveiling. Incidentally, I was at the Gretzky Sports Centre for the first time on Sunday.
By the way, I was in Brantford in 2012 and I remember googling Wayne Gretzky statue, thinking there had to be one. I recall that there were no hits. I thought that was impossible. Well it wasn't until the next year that Brantford finally got one. I want to think that's impossible, but I saw no evidence to the contrary.
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Police in Brantford are examining videotape as they investigate vandalism to new statues of hockey great Wayne Gretzky in his hometown.
Police say they have a video that was forwarded to them of Monday's overnight vandalism, which involved someone defacing the statues with spray paint.
But they say they have made no arrests yet in the defacing of the statues honouring the Great One, which were publicly unveiled Sunday outside the newly renovated Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...ford-1.1875781
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And incredibly, for something of such magnitude and importance, multiple people had to have dropped the ball on this, not just the sculptor:
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Like most hockey fans 12-year old Joel Englund knows the correct spelling of Wayne Gretzky’s name.
He also knows the hockey legend never played for the Detroit Red Wings. So imagine his reaction when the Brampton youngster visited the new Wayne Gretzky statue in his hometown of Brantford and looked at the fine print and saw that not only was his name misspelled as ‘Gretzsky’ but he was listed as a member of the Red Wings.
That was among a number of errors Joel discovered on the statue which was unveiled in September at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre.
Joel, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, pointed out the likeness of the Stanley Cup lists the Los Angeles Kings as the Stanley Cup champions in 1989-1990 but they did not claim the Cup until the 2011-2012 season. There is also a list of names engraved on the Cup such as Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and rapper Kanye West along with others.
“I looked at it and said these are mistakes,” said Joel, who says Gretzky is his favourite player. He and his family were visiting the statue along with a family friend Randy Connely of Brantford. Joel’s discovery was reported in a Brantford newspaper which has led to a public outcry.
The sculptor, Brad Oldham of Texas, has since apologized and said the names were never intended to be read. Within a week the statue will be changed so that there are no readable names on the Cup.
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