Zitat des Tages von Patrick Kane:
Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.
I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to keep pushing it.
I'll always welcome some extra shifts and some extra ice time, and it's my job to be as prepared as possible to play those minutes.
It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.
We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.
As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that's your job on the team.
I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.
It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
I still love playing the game, and it's amazing we can do this as a so-called 'job,' and it's amazing we can come to the rink every day and play the game we love.
For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
For PSP, we play the 'SOCOM' game as a team on the plane, and it's pretty cool because you can connect to everyone.
I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.
When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.
I think you try to improve every season and every game and be prepared about certain defensemen you're playing against, certain ways to find open ice.
That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things like: 'Kane, Prom?' We have a fun, young team, and girls are asking you to the prom and giving you their numbers.
You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.
The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
I know hockey is growing in the U.S., and it's becoming more popular, but anything to get the game out there and see how we view it. We view it as the best game in the world.
Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.
It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
