I think the game has gotten better. (The two-ref system) keeps players from taking cheap shots behind the play. I never thought I'd like it, considering the way I like to hack.
I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.
My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.
The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining.
I was 14 when I lost them [his front teeth]. The main thing was, we won that game, so I was the happiest. You hate to lose your teeth and the game, too.
Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.
You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.
Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.
I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer.
I told her they must all be sold out.
Hell, I don't know if he speaks French.
I'll still run him on the ice tomorrow.
Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.
In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.
Winning is always fun, but the car is more important.
I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.
It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn't thinking about hockey is important.
It doesn't take long to play with those guys. They're so good, they really help you out in all areas of the game and make it easy on you.
Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.
I have to thank the guy who fired me because he was also the guy who hired me.
Maybe there wasn't much hot water in the showers. I'm not sure.
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.
