Emma Gretzky, the youngest child of hockey icon Wayne Gretzky, and Stone Eby, a former tight end at Southern Methodist University, announced their engagement in a joint Instagram post Tuesday. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe easiest yes to a lifetime with you \u2764\ufe0f,\u201d Emma wrote, including photos of the pair posing outdoors in front of a scenic background. <\/p>\n
The carousel post included snapshots of the couple\u2019s son, Walter Boone-Gretzky Eby, who turns one in August.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m crying!! no one deserves this more \ud83e\udd79\ud83e\udef6\ud83c\udffc,\u201d Emma\u2019s sister, model Paulina Gretzky, who is married to PGA golfer\u00a0Dustin Johnson, wrote in the comments. <\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations \u2665\ufe0f Love You All !\u201d mom Janet Gretzky added. <\/p>\n
Emma Gretzky and Stone Eby, a former tight end at Southern Methodist University. Instagram\/Emma Gretzky<\/p>\n
Emma, 23, and Stone celebrated their third anniversary together in November 2025.<\/p>\n
He is founder and owner of Stone Built Construction and Development in Dallas-Fort Worth. <\/p>\n
Emma Gretzky, the youngest child of hockey icon Wayne Gretzky. Instagram\/Emma Gretzky<\/p>\n
Emma played tennis at the college level as a student at SMU in Dallas, where she was enrolled from 2012-15, according to her LinkedIn.<\/p>\n
She is an independent childcare provider, as well as a clothing designer at Gretzky Hockey School, her profile states. <\/p>\n
Wayne Gretzky (far right) and family pose while attending the 2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series between the Los Angeles Kings and the Anaheim Ducks at Dodger Stadium on January 25, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Wayne and Janet \u2014 married 38 years on July 16 \u2014 also have three sons: Ty, born in 1990, Trevor, born in 1992, and Tristan in 2000.<\/p>\n
The Hall of Fame hockey legend, who retired in April 1999, is the first and only player to have his number 99 jersey retired league-wide by the NHL.<\/p>\n
Wayne played his final game with the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Gretzky, the youngest child of hockey icon Wayne Gretzky, and Stone Eby, a former tight end at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,546,75,6015,82,1276,28672,62089],"class_list":["post-836313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-college-football","tag-entertainment","tag-smu-mustangs","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-wags","tag-wayne-gretzky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}