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"Biracial"?

The article says that he was born to "bi-racial parents" -- does this mean that both parents were biracial, or that his parents were an interracial couple and thus he was biracial?

Incidentally, I was living in Buffalo when he was with the Sabres, and I recall that the golf club where the Sabre players traditionally played was discovered, upon Fuhr's application, to have a whites-only policy. I seem to remember that his fellow players quit en masse. Does anyone else remember the details of this incident? This would have been in the early '90s, so the rule seemed quite outdated at the time. --Jfruh 17:18, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

contradiction?

The article mentions his rejection from a Buffalo Golf club on racial grounds, then suggests that Fuhr never encountered racism while in the NHL. Perhaps he never encountered racism WITHIN the NHL, but it would be nice to have another source confirm this. In the meantime, i'll narrow things so that the article is at least internally consistent. --72.136.196.248 11:19, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

While in the NHL and within the NHL, one can deduct the second from the first. If it's really necessary you can change it. -RiverHockey (talk) 20:43, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Drug Addcition Controversy

I believe one of the notable things missing from this article was the fact that grant fuhr did have a drug addiction to coccaine[1]

that link above can verify this fact. Fuhr's addiction early in his career cme out in a Issue of the Edmonton Journal on Aug 31, 1990.

I think this is a more reliable source for that. Bsroiaadn^Talk 13:45, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cite this fact

Near the end of the page it says that it's believed Gretzky said Fuhr is the best goalie in NHL history a few times, but it should be noted that he said the same thing about Dominik Hasek. Should we put the verification/citing notees on that statement? Hasek is the best 03:56, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Citation for this claim is a dead link. 205.172.134.23 (talk) 20:51, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

San Diego Padres?

It says that Fuhr was drafted in Major League Baseball by the San Diego Padres...it would be nice if someone could cite this fact, because I can't find his name in any draft history using this site. I can only imagine this site is accurate since it's an official MLB site, so a reference to the contrary would be nice. --Silverandcold 03:29, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fuhr was recently on an episode of Pros vs. Joes (which should also be mentioned) and in the beginning of the episode (in the Pros introductions to the Joes) it is stated that he was originally drafted to the Padres. This would back up the statement. Mar. 25, 2007.

I sent an e-mail to the Padres about this issue. According to Tim Katzman, Director of Corporate Communications, Fuhr was never drafted by the Padres. He's also under the impresson Fuhr was never drafted by any MLB team. -Matt Bugg, DobberHockey.com (November 27th, 2007) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.149.15.133 (talk) 20:04, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 16:30, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No references tag & removal

I added references for every paragraph. I removed the tag about no references or citations. Dogru144 03:52, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but the references should be included as inline citations and listed in a References section at the bottom of the page. See WP:MOS and WP:CITE for further info. -- Gmatsuda 23:32, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy in Buffalo section

This section needs a complete overhaul, but quite frankly, I'm baffled as to how to do it. I tried finding the article in the Buffalo News archives as instructed to do so by the article [2] but couldn't. How do we fix this? Schmloof (talk) 18:10, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You made a good start with copyediting. It reads more neutral . Flibirigit (talk) 19:12, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Canada Cup 1987

The article about Fuhr contains a description of his performance in the 1987 Canada Cup as cementing his reputation as a great goaltender. I remember watching the Canada Cup in 1987 and thinking that he played terribly, especially against the Russians. Canada badly outshot them, especially in the 3rd game, and barely beat them 6-5 with Lemieux's historic goal. Whoever wrote that portion of the article either didn't watch the 1987 Canada Cup, or has a very poor memory. 66.11.73.250 (talk) 18:04, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Selected as the 1987 Canada Cup All-star goaltender, including three wins and a tie against runner-up Soviet Union, a team that had more of the tournament's Top-10 goal scorers than Canada. Jmg38 (talk) 08:04, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fuhr's biological parents

The article says that he "was born to one African-Canadian parent and one Caucasian parent," but then it mentions that his "mother came from Enoch Cree Nation." Someone who is Cree is not Caucasian. 47.54.108.74 (talk) 03:05, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]