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If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.

Wayne Gretzky

It’s just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you’ve held up the Stanley Cup.
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One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game – if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.
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Sometimes people ask, ‘Are hockey fights real?’ I say, ‘If they weren’t, I’d get in more of them.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, ‘This is what we’re going to do,’ and bought an annuity with it.
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My kids are no different than anyone else’s – they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.
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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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No matter who you are, we’re creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.
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It really doesn’t matter or concern me what people are saying or who thinks who is the favorite. The bottom line is you have to play.
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There’s no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you’re sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.
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I can’t remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.
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We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than my mom and dad raised their kids.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.

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