Hockey Management Quotes

I've tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I've got a good grasp of what a hockey GM needs to do.

Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup.

I have a list of stuff I need to do during the day. I try to do a couple of hours of professional stuff, be it hockey stuff I haven't gotten to the last little while, husband stuff, everything to repairing stuff around the house that I neglected around the winter.

Hopefully my time in Nashville has helped me. We've had a lot of different things happen to our hockey club, seen a lot of different situations and different types of clubs from an expansion team to a Stanley Cup playoff threat. I think any coach that's gone through those things, you become a better coach.

When you play hockey, you don't realize how much it takes to put a team together and the business people around the team, what they do to get the franchise to the next level.

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

If you know anything about Lou Lamoriello, his background and what he does, he will do what it takes to win.

To be a general manager in the NHL, you need to be smart, tough and ruthless.