Crosby is a great player, but I'd have to say Ovechkin, who is also a great player but doesn't have the same kind of support, and who does something great on almost every shift.

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

I'm trying not to be a kid all the time, but it's hard.

I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends, the ones I've had since I was 5 years old. Sometimes I wish I could bring Czechoslovakia to America. Then I would be the happiest guy in the world.

It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.