Silfverberg Nhl Quotes

You try to squeeze a little more Charmin in the pads when you face him. ~ Kevin Hodson

This is really a new NHL and it's built on speed and young guys. ~ Mario Lemieux

I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York. ~ Jaromir Jagr

Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me. ~ Brendan Morrison

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed. ~ Adam Oates

Girls, where are you? I can't find you. ~ Alexander Ovechkin

Every time I see you naked, I feel sorry for your wife. ~ Jaromir Jagr

I think the game has gotten better. (The two-ref system) keeps players from taking cheap shots behind the play. I never thought I'd like it, considering the way I like to hack. ~ Brian Skrudland

The model for an NHL without fighting is right there in front of us. The [playoffs are] the time of year that fans love best; when the best hockey is played ... [The] enforcers don't play. Even mini-enforcers ... remain on the bench. Teams and coaches can't afford anything stupid and unpredictable ... With no one to fight back for them, players go harder into the corners, more determinedly to the front of the net. If they want to fire up the crowd and their teammates, they have to do it themselves. And in the playoffs, they do. ~ Ken Dryden

We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games. ~ Fred Shero

Sure, Daniel wears number 22 and Henrik number 33. ~ Marc Crawford

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

Ever since he's been a little boo-aw. ~ Marc Crawford

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard. ~ Wayne Gretzky

We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general. ~ Jeremy Roenick

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet. ~ Paul Gallico

Usually, I'm on the bus by now, having a beer and waiting for everyone else. This is cutting into my beer time. ~ Craig Berube

I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job. ~ Tie Domi

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. ~ Jaromir Jagr

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. ~ Ron Francis

I'm not sure Mario is going to get accolafes he deserves, especially from outside the game. But from within, the players, the people who follow closely, realize exactly what he's broughtto the table, exactly what he has done. People tend to forget ... hockey was dying in Pittsburgh before he got there. I played there. It was almost dead. I'm sorry, but the NHL would not have a franchise in Pittsburgh today had Mario not come along. Think about it, no hockey in Pittsburgh. ~ Wayne Gretzky

When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another. ~ Gary Bettman

I won't miss him. Maybe the West Edmonton Mall will miss him, but not me. ~ Glen Sather

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players. ~ Gary Bettman

Ovechkin does not play like a Russian. He plays like an NHL player. ~ Vladislav Tretiak

He's one of the most coachable players out there. ~ Jonathan Toews

My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back. ~ Ted Lindsay

People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles. ~ Wayne Gretzky

He had better get married soon, because he's getting uglier every day! ~ Mark Recchi

The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me. ~ Dustin Penner

Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all. ~ Lester Patrick

Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are. ~ Chris Chelios

We have to get families back in the game, get back where Saturday night, everything stops. A case of beer comes out and a bottle of rye and anyone who comes to the house, they better want to watch hockey. ~ Bobby Hull

There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps. ~ Glen Sather

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big. ~ Scotty Bowman

That's great. I'm 100 years old and people are still interested. ~ Grant Fuhr

Dad, they used to tell Wayne Gretzky that he was to small, and that he would never make the NHL look at him now I replied ~ Mike Leonetti

You have Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan ... and Mario Lemieux. He's the best in hockey, in my opinion. ~ Kordell Stewart