Jarome Iginla Quotes

My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I remember the first game I got to see him play against the Jets. The Kings beat the Jets, and I was happy that they did. Gretzky left the game after the first period, and I was upset about that.

Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.

I played on a line with Theo Fleury and German Titov, and I was actually center on their line.

I'm a die-hard NHL fan. I can't get enough.

I watched Gretzky, I watched Lemieux. Maybe it's the time when you're playing, but for a kid coming into the league, you play the Boston Bruins and you just watched Bobby Orr.

Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

Hockey should have some appeal. It's a good game in that is full of action, very quick, and it can be high-scoring.

Hockey is a tough game.

I've been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game of the Winter Classic weekend.

Canada is hockey.

I like Joe Sakic. Coming out of Buffalo, I obviously like Alexander Mogliny, Pat LaFontaine. Hasek is up there. Miroslav Satan. Whoever seemed to be a good player at the time I'd watch. Jagr too. I tried to learn a lot from those guys.

It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things like: 'Kane, Prom?' We have a fun, young team, and girls are asking you to the prom and giving you their numbers.

I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.

I am so fascinated and taken by the Golden Knights.

Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about it and having people mention it to him.

I was a right-winger, but I was all over the ice.

If you follow me on social media, you may know that I am an L.A. Kings fan. I'm not kuh-ray-zee, but I am definitely enthusiastic. I love me some Kaaannnngggsss.

It doesn't matter whether I'm in an NHL arena, at a local rink, or on a sheet of ice in the middle of a baseball stadium: when I'm around the game, I feel at home.

Russ Courtnall was my absolute favorite player. Patrick Roy was there, too, of course.

There's so much of a rivalry there, the Devils and Rangers.

I am a rabid Maple Leaf fan.