Janet Gretzky Says ‘Mean Comments’ About Wayne’s Loyalty to Canada Have ‘Broken His Heart’

Former NHL player Wayne Gretzky (R) and his wife Janet Jones arrive before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2025. Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP

The wife of Canadian hockey great Wayne Gretzky is speaking out in defence of her husband and is commending another hockey icon for doing the same.

Janet Gretzky publicly thanked Bobby Orr for coming to her husband’s defence in a weekend op-ed published in The Toronto Sun in which he referred to Wayne Gretzky as a man who has “brought nothing but glory to his homeland year after year, decade after decade.”