If we're going to change the game it has to start at eight, nine and 10 years old. When we were that age we'd go to the pond or backyard rink and throw a puck on the ice and play five on five, or seven on seven. You get this creativity and this imagination that comes from within, just having fun on the pond. Now kids are so focused on team play, and the coaches are so focused on positioning. You can't change it at the NHL level.

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.

I missed 100% of the shots I didn't take

I think the greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.

The only way a kid is going to practise is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys.

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.