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.
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.
It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.
I believe Bobby Orr had the greatest impact of any player to come along in my lifetime. He earned his place in hockey history by single handedly changing the game from the style played in my day. In my mind there can be no greater legacy.
The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.
We feel fortunate [with Canada hockey team]. We have got a lot of guys who love to play, but they also love to win even more. We are pretty happy. Although we are young, we like our group of players.
We can't score goals, we can't stop goals, we aren't hitting, we can't play on special teams. . . we all stink. We can try to improve but to do so we will need to make trades. And who would want our players that are underachieving?
I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories. . .
I have been practising since I was 4 or 5 years old, but that wasn't really practice. I was just having fun. . . . I just loved to play hockey.
You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
That hockey game will haunt me until the day I die.
You want it? Work for it.
I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
It showed nothing. I'm not pregnant.
Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.
First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.
Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.
His four year contract renewal: As always, I remain hopeful that Don Cherry won't be offered the same length contract.
I'll still run him on the ice tomorrow.
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.