What you want to do with your best players is, it doesn't matter how many goals and assists they get, but when they get goals and assists. The best players get them at the most important times, and that's when we need those guys to come through.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL

Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.

The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don't think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.

At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.