And yet, we forge on, tying Stewart’s retirement, tangentially and near-solely for traffic purposes, to one of the times hockey came up on the show. It was when Wayne Gretzky retired in 1999.

The next week, Gretzky got a longer sendoff, courtesy of correspondent/sports expert Mo Rocca.

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“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” — Dwayne Gretzky.