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

You miss the ball you do not hit 100%

Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.

If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I'd choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.

When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much.

I have recall. I don't know why or how. I had a guy once who said he played against me in novice [league, for kids under nine], for the Detroit Lasers. And I said, "Oh yeah, we beat you in the tournament, 8-1 and I think I scored seven goals, and the goalie was left-handed." And he was, "Oh my God. I was the goalie!" .

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.