Zitat des Tages über NHL:
My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.
The good news for us is the NHL has never been stronger, never been more popular, and that, I guess, has led to a lot of interest being expressed from a number of places, an interest in getting an expansion team, and Las Vegas happens to be one of those places.
Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.
By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.
If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don't have to produce every night.
I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.
Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.
You know there are so many people that have touched your life both on the ice and within your career in the NHL whether it be owners, GM's, coaches, players, trainers, all the way down. And that doesn't even account for all of the people that you encountered outside of the game that you met along this trip, too.
I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.
Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.
I think any time you play your first NHL game, you remember that.
NHL clubs have not wanted to go to the Olympics, and we have been saying that for months if not years.
As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.
It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
This is really a new NHL and it's built on speed and young guys.
A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.
I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out.
Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.
The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
Maybe playing in the NHL would be pretty nice, but that's more of a pipe dream for me.
Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.