I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.
By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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.
Nobody would ever, ever get even remotely lippy about the Islanders with me, or there'd be bloodshed on the set of 'Entourage.' Everybody knows that you don't even go there.
A nontraditional hockey market is turning into more of a traditional market. We're now a fabric of Nashville.
No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
I think the NHL has done a great job of building the sport as far as getting the people's attention and letting them know what's going on in hockey - especially when the powers meet each other.
I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
People will come up to me at live events or wherever and have me sign Canadian flags or the old 'Team Canada' shirt and have me talk about those days back in 'Team Canada,' so it's a moment that I'm proud of.
I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.
I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.
I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.
Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.
Hockey is the dream of all Swedes. They get the girls.
I know hockey is growing in the U.S., and it's becoming more popular, but anything to get the game out there and see how we view it. We view it as the best game in the world.
The NHL is the best in the world, it has the best players. I love the NHL.
I grew up in a city just outside of Edmonton, St. Albert. So I watched NHL games with my grandpa. I watched a lot of games, back then it was called the Smythe Division, and it was just Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Winnipeg.
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.
I love hockey, and I go to a lot of the games.
The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
India is known for hockey all over the world.
It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.
As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.
