There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.

He's one of those guys whose English gets worse every year. But as long as it doesn't affect his play, we're all right.

We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.

The NHL's opinion of itself is so high.... Let them get drunk on their greatness. We'll see how many Euros look our way.

Anything coach Babcock needs me to do, I'll do it and if it's face-off well, I'm willing and ready to do that obviously.

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

Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.

My rooting interest these days is first and foremost competitive hockey, and secondly in officials not making a mistake.

I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.

Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.

We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.

That was awesome. I wasn't expecting it and when I got the call I got nervous for a second. But I was just really excited.

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.

I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?'

I've called all sports. I was a radio DJ, club DJ, talk show host, hockey, basketball, football; you name it, I've done it.

On his attempt at the Edmonton Oilers empty net: I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line.

Much more a skiing family than a hockey family, my dad wasn't a big fan of the arenas early in the morning on the weekends.

People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

I just heard George W. Bush's new plan for airline security. From here on out, every plane will now have its own hockey dad.

Over the weekend, Vladimir Putin scored eight goals during a hockey game. It happened just after he had the goalie executed.

Hockey is my first love, and I devote most of my time to hockey only. But if I get time, I won't mind working in films, too.

We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being champions too much.

I've always had a passion for hockey, ... That's the key. You can't be putting in time. You have to enjoy doing what you do.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

I started playing hockey late and it was unclear until the very last moment if I was talented or not. But it turned out well.

I'm proud to be Russian. We have probably the best country in the world. Everything is the best: hockey players, cars, girls.

I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do.

Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

I've slept through a mild earthquake in Italy. And also a very tight hockey game where people were screaming their heads off.

When I was 5, I'm like,' I'm doing this,' whether there's women's ice hockey, men's ice hockey, whatever it was in my future.

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.

I don't mind a little blood on the ice when it's a hockey rink, but I hate seeing blood on the ice when it's from baby seals.

It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.

My hope, it's not only my hope, but all of the NHL hopes to raise hockey in China because it's a good country to raise hockey.

I never look at myself as a black player. I think of myself as a hockey player that wants to be the best player in the league.

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.

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

I would be surprised if there weren't some owners who didn't want to get a deal done right now and get back to playing hockey.

Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'

On Sergei Fedorov's breaking three sticks on Dallas players: I don't know if Anna (Kournikova) told him to get tougher or what.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

Before I broke my back, I was really looking forward to playing hockey at the University of Michigan. That was my biggest goal.

I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs.

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