People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He'd skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.

I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.

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

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