Gretzky starts for The Simpsons
Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky has lent his voice to “The Simpsons” for an episode set to air next month.
Simpsons executive producer Al Jean tells NHL.com that the show was looking for “heroes of winter” for the Dec. 11 episode “and there couldn’t be a bigger hockey hero than Wayne Gretzky.”
Gretzky, known as “The Great One” in hockey circles, won four Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers before moving on to play for the Los Angeles Kings, St. Louis Blues and the New York Rangers.
The Oilers tweeted out a picture of the cartoon version of Gretzky, in which he has four fingers on each hand and yellow skin, just like other “Simpsons” characters. The league’s website says that Gretzky recorded his role over the summer.