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

Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting.

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.

In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.

Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids can pick it up and read it and learn things and say, "Geez, I didn't know that. That's pretty cool."

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.