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I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.
Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.
I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.
I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.
We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.
But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.
The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.
When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn't anything - I didn't do anything or I didn't feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.
25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.
My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.
Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.
I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.
When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.
Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.
I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.
I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.
Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.
