I've been talking to them since August. |
If players are going to play, they want to be on a winning team, and we've been doing that. |
If Sidney Crosby is in the top 23 players he'll be on the team. |
It is essential that we continue to educate administrators, coaches, parents, players, staff and volunteers on the negative effects of hazing. |
Ken Holland brings a wealth of experience in preparing a team and he has had great success in selecting championship teams. |
Last year's team was if not the best, right up there in the history of the tournament. This year, every player is going to have to bring to the rink their A games to be successful. Brent has that unique ability to make sure every player has their A game for every game. |
No question we'd put him on the team. We're not counting on Sidney Crosby but Sidney Crosby will definitely wear a Canadian jersey in the future. |
Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this difficult time. It was great to have Wayne on the call this morning as he's still committed to Team Canada. |
Our whole process here right now is to make sure everything is OK with Wayne and with his mom and that's where our focus is. I've talked to all of our other management people and we'll just take it day by day here. |
The evaluation of who will play in Turin will really happen October through December, |
The key thing for us now is to have our medical staff talk to all NHL medical staffs to stay on top of where all of our players are. We're going to have to do that from now to the start of our camp in Toronto (Feb. 13). |
There could be a chance [of playing at the Olympics] if he's one of the best 23 players. |
They certainly are supporting (our position) and that is to have Wayne Gretzky at the Olympics. |
This is a Sutter team down to every little detail. This is a team. This isn't about two or three superstars. He needed everyone going to get to the gold-medal game and give Canada a very real chance to win it again, and that's what has happened here. |
This just wasn't our tournament. We had a number of players who played in the world championship and they had the legs. We just couldn't seem to get our legs going here. |