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.

All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.

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.

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.

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.