I do feel the weight of being the steward of the greatest sport the world ever came up with. I grew up with a love and admiration for it, so I feel an obligation to portray it as electric and terrifying and exciting and beautiful, and all these sometimes contradicting things that make hockey what it is.

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untrustful and it straight-up offends me.

I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in the moment, always.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.