You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.

I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.

I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.