14 ordspråk av Paul Coffey
Paul Coffey
A night like this wouldn't have been possible without the help of a lot of people. It takes a team to accomplish the banners that are up here in this building.
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I had no idea it was coming,
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I remembered back to Italy about six years ago when fighter jets clipped the gondola. Twelve people were killed. That incident flashed into my mind. Everyone's jaws just dropped. No one believed it. It was one of those strange things you don't expect - next thing you know there's a plane going over the building.
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I was having trouble,
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It popped up and over. It's not like you could see it coming in. Next thing you know it was just buzzing us. It seemed to come out of nowhere.
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It's a great tribute to be joining such an elite group of players.
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It's a great tribute to be joining such an elite group of players. I have great memories of my years in Edmonton, and the players who were my teammates. We were a tight bunch, and I'm honored that my contribution to the team will be celebrated in Oilers fashion.
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It's impossible for me to go back and put on that hockey sweater again.
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My father used to tell me the game is not privileged to have you, you're privileged to have hockey,
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Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
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Simple philosophy: be on time, come to the rink ready to play. And we pretty much did that all the time and pretty much learned as we went.
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Wayne was such a big part of my career here in Edmonton as well as everybody's that I think that having him in the building is just icing on the cake,
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We played pretty much from the cuff,
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When the sweater was going up, there were a lot of things going through my mind.
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