National Hockey League Quotes

I like the normal things of life: I like the Mets, and the Celtics, and the N.Y. Rangers. I like to watch C-Span; I love Costco.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

It's a dream come true to be part of an NHL team, to be a regular in the NHL, to live the life, to make the money and do all that stuff.

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.

There's only one professional team in Columbus, the Blue Jackets, but Ohio State is a football state.

In New Jersey, we won in '95, but after that for four years we never had a sniff at it. The next thing you know we went on a run of three Stanley Cup Finals in four years in 2000, 2001 and 2003.

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

I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.

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

I'm a White Sox fan, and the Blackhawks.

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 am so fascinated and taken by the Golden Knights.

It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.

I don't care how any other Canadian team does, other than the Edmonton Oilers.

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.

I never would have thought, during my playing days, that there would be a team in Las Vegas.

I have done a lot of NFL games, a season-opening home games, playoff games, championship games, and of course Stanley Cup games, World Series, NBA championship games. But I have never done a Superbowl. It's probably the only major sporting event I've never done and I would like to.

I love the Capitals and my teammates here as much as I love my country and I know all the other NHL players feel the same for their teams.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

I have a favorite line that I ever got to play with, and that would be at the World Cup. I got to play with Mario Lemieux and Joe Sakic. I got to be the right winger on their line.