The owners can sit there and do giveaways and lower ticket prices to get the fans back to the game knowing that what they are really doing is taking it out of our pockets, ... It's important to get people back into the arenas to watch hockey, but it is a lot easier to do when (the owners) know they still get money back because they are taking it out of our paycheck. In essence, the players are paying for all the giveaways and free stuff that the owners are doing. Which is all well and good, but you don't hear about it. |
There's nobody on the Olympic team that's scored more points than I have, who's had a career like I've had in terms of physicality and putting points on the board and being a leader. |
They just love to complain about me because I'm an American who gets more press than their Canadian players. |
This is our canvas. Our easel. This is how we paint, on fresh sheets of ice. |
To be on the (stationary) bike every day, sometimes twice a day, and just being skated without pucks for five weeks, six weeks, that (expletive) is for the birds. |
To not have the opportunity to go back one more time and try and win the gold is obviously, in my opinion, very disrespectful. They can beat me down and say I'm over the hill or say that I don't have it anymore, but to me, I know that I do. |
We have no confidence in our ability and no confidence that we are doing it right. We just made too many mistakes. We are afraid of failure and doing something wrong. |
We spend the whole night killing penalties, it's going to catch you, ... It wears guys out. |
We tried to give Andy what he wanted. We were like an energy line. |
We're a strong union, but we are frustrated with the lack of communication, the lack dialogue and negotiation by the NHL, |
We're going to try to make it better for everybody, period, end of subject. And if you don't realize that, then don't come. |
When they saw that 12 per cent out of the paycheck, the guys on our team were [griping] and moaning and complaining about it, ... This is after we already had given back 24 per cent and taken a ($39-million) salary cap. |
When we watch hockey games and see 8,000 fans in (Washington) D.C., you cringe as a player, ... Those cities that aren't pulling their weight in terms of drawing fans and revenue are hurting everybody as a whole, not just that city. |