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

Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.

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

I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

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

I'm not sure Mario is going to get accolafes he deserves, especially from outside the game. But from within, the players, the people who follow closely, realize exactly what he's broughtto the table, exactly what he has done. People tend to forget... hockey was dying in Pittsburgh before he got there. I played there. It was almost dead. I'm sorry, but the NHL would not have a franchise in Pittsburgh today had Mario not come along. Think about it, no hockey in Pittsburgh.