Not long after Jamie Storr was drafted seventh overall by the LA Kings in 1994, the young netminder received a phone call at his family home in Brampton, Ontario.
His mother picked it up. On the other end of the line was a voice claiming to be Wayne Gretzky, and that he would like to speak with Jamie.
Although her son was recently drafted by the Kings, Storr's mother was sure it was a prank. After Gretzky assured her that it was indeed him, she handed the phone to her son so that he could speak with his future teammate, the Great One.
It was one thing to get drafted, but it was quite another to be selected by the team that boasted Wayne Gretzky.
"Stepping into that era, it was a really big deal for me," Storr recently reminisced. "Being around the likes of Jari Kurri, Rob Blake, Marty McSorley, Darryl Sydor, and Kelly Hrudey. There were lots of guys I looked up to, and having Wayne Gretzky there was the icing on the cake," he continued.
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Jamie Storr recalls being invited to live with teammate Wayne Gretzy as he adjusted to life in Los Angeles