what 4 teams did wayne gretzky play for?
Edmonton Oilers
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 Gretzky only played eight games for Indianapolis . The Racers were losing $ 40 @,@ 000 per game . Skalbania told Gretzky he would be moved , offering him a choice between the Edmonton Oilers and the Winnipeg Jets . On the advice of his agent , Gretzky picked the Oilers , but the move was not that simple . On November 2 , Gretzky , goaltender Eddie Mio and forward Peter Driscoll were put on a private plane , not knowing where they would land and what team they would be joining . While in the air , Skalbania worked on the deal . Skalbania offered to play a game of backgammon with Winnipeg owner Michael Gobuty , the stakes being if Gobuty won , he would get Gretzky and if he lost , he had to give Skalbania a share of the Jets . Gobuty turned down the proposal and the players landed in Edmonton . Mio paid the $ 4 @,@ 000 bill for the flight with his credit card . Skalbania sold Gretzky , Mio and Driscoll to his former partner , and then @-@ owner of the Edmonton Oilers , Peter Pocklington . Although the announced price was $ 850 @,@ 000 , Pocklington actually paid $ 700 @,@ 000 . The money was not enough to keep the Racers alive ; they folded that December . 

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 Gretzky has made several TV appearances , including as a Dance Fever celebrity judge , and an ' unforgettable appearance ' , acting in a dramatic role alongside Victor Newman in The Young and the Restless in 1981 . In 1984 , he travelled to the Soviet Union to film a television program on Russian goaltender Vladislav Tretiak . Gretzky hosted the Saturday Night Live comedy program in 1989 . A fictional crime @-@ fighting version of him served as one of the main characters in the cartoon ProStars in 1991 . Gretzky has made over 60 movie , network television and video appearances as himself , according to IMDB , as of February 2012 . He is a naturalized American citizen . 

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 With 17 National Hockey League ( NHL ) players on their roster , Sweden felt confident they could upset the Soviet Union and Canada by utilizing a system of strong team play . Kent Nilsson , coming off a 131 @-@ point season for the Calgary Flames , Thomas Steen , Ulf Nilsson and Börje Salming were expected to be the team 's leaders . With only five returning players from their appearance in the 1976 final and suffering from the defections of the Šťastný brothers – Peter , Marián and Anton – to Canada , the Czechoslovakian team entered the tournament in the midst of a rebuilding phase and were not considered contenders in 1981 . 

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 He received a good deal of cover from burly Oiler defensemen Dave Semenko and Marty McSorley . The latter followed Gretzky to the LA Kings in 1989 , where he played the same policeman role for several more years . But Gretzky discouraged unfair hits in another way . " If a guy ran him , Wayne would embarrass that guy " , said former Oiler Lee Fogolin . " He 'd score six or seven points on him . I saw him do it night after night . " 

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 In 1995 , Gretzky sold the card to Wal @-@ Mart and Treat Entertainment for $ 500 @,@ 000 . The two companies intended to use the card as the grand prize in a promotional contest . The card was sent all across the United States , as part of Wal @-@ Mart 's plan to rejuvenate the baseball card market . On February 24 of the following year , the 122nd anniversary of Wagner 's birthday , the grand prize drawing for the card was held on CNN 's Larry King Weekend . At around 9 : 00 P.M. , Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson , one of King 's guests on the show , pulled out the name of one Patricia Gibbs , a postal worker living in Hollywood , Florida . After spending hours unsuccessfully trying to contact Gibbs , King 's staff finally got through to her phone , and informed Gibbs of her prize . Treat Entertainment and Wal @-@ Mart gave the card to Gibbs a few weeks later at a Wal @-@ Mart store in Miramar , Florida . Gibbs could not afford the taxes on the card , so she decided to consign the card to an auction later on . She consigned the card to Christie 's , a New York @-@ based auction house better known for selling famous artworks . 
