I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.
. . . I just want to remind the owners and the players: you guys make money because you have a whole bunch of fans out there who are working really hard. They buy tickets. They're watching on TV. Ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done.
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.
I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
When no one else signs me.
That's right, Mitt Romney took on Evander Holyfield in a boxing match for charity, and it was a pretty one-sided fight. But it was still not the worst boxing match we've seen this month. This weekend Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game with some former NHL players and scored eight goals. Even Evander Holyfield and Mitt Romney said, 'That looks fake. '
Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.
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.
Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.
I grabbed it and squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in.
It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.
Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.
Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.
Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey.
Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for the good of the league, but in my opinion, he's strictly behind the owners. Those 1996 rule changes are a joke
The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.
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.
If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.
Matt Cooke may be the worst fighter in the history of the National Hockey League.