Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Renney

We're sort of playing a hunch as much as anything. He's played New Jersey well, and our last good game of hockey was here against them with Kevin in goal, so I don't think that is unreasonable at all.

Jason Spezza

We're going to snap out of it. It's not something we're in for the long haul. We've just got too good a hockey team here.

What a huge game, just to play the USA, the powerhouse of baseball. We can play baseball, too. We're not just a hockey country.

What a great effort. It was a smart 60 minutes of hockey. I couldn't be more proud of this hockey club over the last two games.

Brian Campbell

We better start turning things around. We're getting near the end of the season, and things change. It's not the same hockey you're playing in December. It's different. It's playoff hockey. We're still playing December hockey.

Dwayne Roloson

Unfortunately, it went off a stick and went the other way on me. You can't fault anybody on it. Guys are trying hard to block shots and get in lanes and do the little things that win hockey games. Unfortunately, they get a lucky bounce.

We feel that the NHL made the correct decision to reschedule Saturday's game as the South Florida community prepares for the arrival of Hurricane Wilma. The league acted in the best interest of the fans, our employees and both hockey clubs.

We're extremely pleased to have Paul as our general manager for the World Championship. We've been fortunate to be able to fill our management roles with elite members of the hockey community for many years and Paul no doubt continues that trend.

We're extremely pleased to continue our relationship with CSTV. The elite brand of hockey fans will see on Friday is due to the continuing development of women's hockey at all levels.

We're extremely grateful for the broad coverage of hockey the NBC family is providing from the Olympic Winter Games. We hope that our teams will perform well and that the exposure will enhance our efforts to further grow the game in the U.S.

Sidney Crosby

We're just playing pretty solid hockey right now and not making too many big mistakes. Five on five, we're making it really tough for teams to play us. We're skating, and we're not giving them a lot of opportunities in our end, for the most part. We have to continue to play like that.

We're just not playing good hockey right now. We need to put out a good enough effort to win a game. We need more kids to out there and make things happen. I need some light bulbs to start going on in their heads.

Mark Richards

We're becoming a good hockey team. You obviously want to win the games, but we're getting points over Jacksonville right now. It's a different feeling going into the locker room every night. A couple of months ago, we came into games hoping not to get embarrassed.

Kris Draper

We're a veteran hockey club, we know better than that. We hung Manny out to dry.

Alain Vigneault

We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.

Alain Vigneault

We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.

Alain Vigneault

Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.

Alain Vigneault

You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.

Al Michaels

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

Al MacInnis

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.

We want to show people that we're the team that everyone should be gunning for (in the Capital Hockey Conference). We want to keep distance between us and everyone else because we want to win the league. ... That's why the lapses are very concerning.

Chris Chelios

So here I am running at guys who aren't taller than 5-foot-8, and I'm the one who tears up his knee.

Chris Chelios

When no one else signs me.

Chris Chelios

It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

Cherie Piper

I think we're really good about pushing each other in practice and we have high tempo and I feel like we have some of the best players in the world so just competing against one another and getting in there and pushing each other around and getting ready for that physical style of game coming up, we have to play hard and pretend it's a game.

Cherie Piper

We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.

Charlie Kaufman

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

Bob Bourne

We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being champions too much.

Michael Cammalleri

The one thing you realize when you play with Sean is how good a hockey player he is when he's not doing all the other stuff. Sean can score, he's got skill and he has unbelievable speed. And when he uses those tools, he's tough to stop out there.

Doug Armstrong

We are pleased to sign Philippe Boucher to a new contract that will keep him with the Dallas Stars for the next three seasons. Philippe has been a consistent performer for our hockey club and we are looking forward to his next three years with our organization.

Alvin Lee

We started playing ice hockey arenas and baseball stadiums which was not as good as the underground circuit. I didn't enjoy it as much.

We are a defensive hockey team and we have a system that we are going to stick to and it has kept us in game all year; even the games we lose are only by one goal.

Chris Stewart

We're in the best of five right now. We've got three games in their building possibly. So we need to play the best hockey we can. If we can scoop a couple there, then we can come back home and take care of business.