Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.
Mario Lemieux is Mr. Pittsburgh.
You know what? I did! I impressed myself just making it.
I have to thank the guy who fired me because he was also the guy who hired me.
I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
Potential is synonymous with getting your ass kicked.
It seems like we're doing just enough to lose by a little.
We've made a final offer. We hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.
I say no words. . . I can't speak with him. I shy. He too good.
Sure, Daniel wears number 22 and Henrik number 33.
That's great. I'm 100 years old and people are still interested.
I used the N-word instead of calling him Trevor. I used it just not thinking. . . I told Trev this is an old wound with me. I grew up with it. I am sorry as anybody that it stuck with me.
You have Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan. . . and Mario Lemieux. He's the best in hockey, in my opinion.
Bob Goodenow will kill me, but if we're going to be realistic about things, probably 75 per cent of the league is overpaid. But we're not paying ourselves. There are people giving it to us and no one is putting a gun to their heads. Something has to be done if we're going to fix this.
Maybe they should go back to wooden sticks.
I mean the NHL never called me and wanted me to show up at the draft.
It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.
I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.
He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer.