SKATE TO WHERE THE PUCK IS GOING
Just sat down with my newly-received Autumn issue (#318) of your excellent magazine. However, I think you’ve mistakenly attributed the “skate to where the puck is going” quote used by Tim Cook to Walter Gretzky, whereas it was his son Wayne, the all-time greatest ice hockey player who actually used those words! BY ROGER HOBSON
GRAHAM SAYS…
After strenuous fact checking using Google, it appears the situation is best described as ‘complicated’, Roger! While Wayne (the famous ice hockey player) famously said it, he was quoting his old man, Walter. All my research did throw up one funny fact though – Wayne was hired by Blackberry to launch its new Passport phone in 2014, but misquoted it as “go to where the puck is”, before correcting himself. Sadly, for the fate of the company, it seems he was actually being quite accurate.