Hockey Quotes
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The league is sending a clear-cut message: We want a great brand of hockey, we want it to be exciting. I think we've reached that goal so far in the season and incidents where there will be an intent to injure or there will be an injury, there will be a price to play.
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Baseball doesn't seem very important on a day like this...When you live in the United States and you think it's the greatest country in the world, you feel somewhat protected and immune. You read about [terrorism] happening in other parts of the world. A day like this makes you rethink. A lot of us really have a false sense of what the world is really like.
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I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.
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These are tough games to play. We shared the puck and we wanted everyone to get a chance to score. Tough games to play in. We want close games. That is why we train so hard. We want to show our fans some even games.
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Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along.
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Personally I don't believe in standing on the ice, or jamming the blueline, waiting. I have always told my players that hockey has to be played on your toes.
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We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.
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About 4000 men, women and teenagers regularly venture out to play a game in -20 weather and stinging prairie winds. Bundled in sweaters and snow suits, balaclavas on their heads and suction cupped shoes on their feet. They slip and slide across the outdoor hockey rinks chasing a soft rubber puck in the Sponge Hockey Capital of the World.
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It really helps to take a breath and think about what you really want to do out there.
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I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.
