The recent Four Nations Face-Off in hockey was, by any standard, an unbelievable success for the game of hockey.

The exposure it produced for our great game is a credit to all those individuals involved in its creation and implementation. Hats off to all the players who were so committed to their respective homelands and the game of hockey in general.

These were not mere exhibition games – these were games with great meaning. Congratulations one and all.

However, as a former player and someone raised in Canada, I need to express a level of disappointment on one specific aspect of the final between Canada and the USA. Once the match was concluded, I heard and read an unbelievable amount of criticism levelled against someone that I consider to be one of the greatest Canadians ever, namely, Wayne Gretzky.