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.

As a player, you have one responsibility, to focus yourself and be ready for the game. As a coach, your responsibility is to get 20 guys ready and have them all on the same page. If you can't get every guy ready every night, you're going to struggle.

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

And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

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

I don't think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.

Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There's nothing like it. It's the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn't be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: "Now they can't say that about me."