My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

If I told you that the big contract had nothing to do with my signing, Id be lying. It made the future secure for my family.

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be.

We have to get families back in the game, get back where Saturday night, everything stops. A case of beer comes out and a bottle of rye and anyone who comes to the house, they better want to watch hockey.

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.