Chris Chelios Playing Quotations

I almost played my way off that team, probably because I was so nervous playing in front of Don. I knew I was on the bubble.

We've got a lot of guys at camp, so it's an opportunity for maybe one of them. But, they had high expectations of (Nik). You could see the way he was playing so far, what he did last year. They were depending on him a lot this year. Hopefully he'll heal quick and be here for the middle of the season and the remainder of the season and the playoffs.

The biggest thing we stressed with (coach) Herb Brooks was that we needed to get off to a good start and to play with intensity right from the beginning of the tournament. That's the way we have to treat the Olympics. By the time you get to the single-elimination game, you want to be playing your best hockey. We are going to have to make the young guys understand that ... getting our intensity level high right from the beginning.

If you would've said 10 years ago that I'd be playing at this level, I would've doubted it very much.

In my wildest dreams I would have never, if you had asked me 10 years ago, thought I would still be playing at this level.

You watched the game. It was undisciplined. It was uncharacteristic of how we have been playing and of what we wanted to do. It was very unacceptable. We had our chances.