Bruce McNall has always been an interesting case. The former owner of the LA Kings, famously responsible for orchestrating the trade that brought Wayne Gretzky to the Kings, McNall also wound up selling the team and spending about five years in prison for fraud and conspiracy. Through it all, though, he's somehow managed to seem a likable enough guy. Now 63and out of jail since 2001McNall is on the board of ProCon.org, a "charity dedicated to promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial i sues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format." He also still attends Kings games and remains friends with many of his former players, including Gretzky and Kings president Luc Robitaille. He answered questions J.J. Redick Jersey in on Thursday. Bruce McNall proof Dan Schneider (@BigDanSchneider) Here are some highlights: On whether a Gretzky-like trade could happen today: "No chance. No chance that it can happen again. In part the league would never allow a team to buy a player the way I did and guise it as a trade. Also, there is not a player that could have the same effect Gretzky had at that time in this day and age. There is a difference between the best player currently and the best player EVER." on Gretzky that allowed him to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs in overtime of Game 6 of the 1993 Western Conference finals: " (A) very cheap way to win a game." On changing the Kings' colors from purple and gold to black, silver and white: "The players HATED the old Laker colors they were wearing. They thought they were bananas on ice! I knew that basic black and white goes with anything and would sell better. More people would wear it than black and purple. We also wanted to get out of the Raiders shadow. Al Davis wasn't happy with me!" On his biggest problem with the game today: "The problem I think with the game today is its stars are now goaltenders and coaches. The way the game is played talent can't shine the way it used to. Pa sing seems to be a forgotten part of the game. It is simply dump and chase. Also, the stars and personalities of the players are not promoted. I doubt Sidney Crosby walking into Staples Center for a kings game would be noticed." On trying to acquire other Edmonton Oilers, and somehow managing to not include Robitaille in the Gretzky trade: "Yes, I tried to acquire as many of those guys as I could. Wayne really pushed me to get them. I couldn't get Me sier or Anderson but I did get Fuhr, Kurri, and Coffey. (Oilers owner Peter) Pocklington basically wanted the money but Glen Sather wanted the best players he could. Robitaille was number 1 on his list and it took forever to get him to realize I wasn't giving up Luc." On the deciding factor in signing off on the Anaheim expansion team: "$25 Million. I thought Disney would be a great partner for the NHL and the 25 mil didn't hurt." On John Candy (actor and McNall's co-owner of the CFL's Toronto Argonauts): "He was not laid back at all. He was very driven. When he owned part of the Argonauts with me he would travel all over Canada to help promote not only our team but the whole sport. I don't know anybody who would spend that type of effort." On the best and worst parts of ownership: "The best thing is making fans happy. It's great to make millions of people happy. And it is a great ego booster! The worst thing is the responsibility involved and you want to do the right thing always and sometimes things don't work out and it's a lot of responsibility to the public to win and do the right thing. Owners don't own teams, they are simply a curator. The fans own the teams. They are the ones that do everything" On whether he had any regrets about his ownership: "Yep. Quite a few. I really pi sed off Gretzky by trading Paul Coffey. And of course we didn't win the Cup in 93. Not Marty's fault." On the biggest regret of his career: "Can't you gue s? I think I should have kept a better eye on my accounting instead of letting things get out of control." Wenyen Gabriel Jersey