John Muckler Quotations

I had a lot of fun in those days. It was a great experience being in the Eastern Hockey League for the simple reason that you did not have a staff.

Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'

He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player.

We have a club here that has 105 points and we have a goalkeeper in Emery who is playing very well at this particular time. It doesn't make any sense to hurry Dom back. We do not have any hidden agenda.

I don't know if I've seen this kind of excitement in any hockey community since (Wayne) Gretzky went to Los Angeles ... especially in this size of a city,

We've had a plan right since Dom got injured. The plan is to have Dom 100 per cent and when he's 100 per cent he will come back and he will play in the playoffs.

Right now, we don't have any hot irons in the fire. Have we been talking to teams? Yes. Do we want to make a move? Only if it betters our hockey club. And we don't want to do it by subtraction, only addition.

I know everybody has a different opinion on this, ... I know what Dominik Hasek brings to the game and he brings passion. He loves the game and I have no question this is going to work.

That's one thing we do have going for us to change things around, is Marty coming back. That does make us a better hockey club.

People should be excited because we've given them something to be excited about,