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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining.

The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.

The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time. I'm sure I wasn't the only goalie who did that.

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.

The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

The kids just aren't the same today.

Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.

The kid looks good in his first game.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.

The one thing I'd always wanted to do in my career is push myself out of my comfort zone - I think I'm really comfortable with being uncomfortable. So that's why I played pro men's hockey, that's why I played softball and hockey at the same time, that's why I'm not afraid to speak up - that's just who I am.

The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.

The only way a kid is going to practise is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang.

There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps.

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

The remedy now is two scotches and an aspirin, I think.

There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.

There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.

There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.

There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

The three important elements in hockey are: the forecheck, the backcheck and the paycheck.

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play - and I wasn’t a skater.

The whole world knows that American TV companies have monopolized Olympic broadcasts and in order to please the fans in their country they do everything they can to keep American viewers interested in what is going on at the hockey rink in Sochi. According to their logic, Americans should always win, no matter what. It was absolutely obvious that [Fyodor] Tyutin's goal yesterday should have been allowed. This was clear to the whole world except the American referee, American TV and those officials with American passports who rule international hockey, grossly neglecting all Olympic principles.

The Tragically Hip, more so than any other band I've worked with, approach their work like a team. This might sound way too pat, but they're like a great hockey team: all five of them have their roles. They go at their shows like an athletic event; they're in it to win it, and they'll lay it out there on the proverbial ice in order to win and get the crowd on their side. You can't do that when you just throw a band together. There's a sixth sense there that makes it easy.

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.

They always try to play with our minds. But that won't work with our club. We've got 20 guys without brains.

They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using.

This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.

This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.

This is your moment. You're meant to be here.

To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

Tomorrow, America's most famous hockey mom, Sarah Palin, will drop the ceremonial first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers game. Right afterwards, she'll get out on the ice and skate around reporters' questions, so it should be interesting.

Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a spark and I'm so happy I want more. Now I'mkind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team andI still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back.Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they winthe Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season. You have to play defense, that's how you win.