"I've always been a guy that's worn his heart on his sleeve and I'm not going to lie to you - it was hard to leave Toronto. My heart was in the right place when I played there but I'm here in Denver now so I really appreciate the group of guys here."
"He's a guy we want to build around and we feel that between Henrik and Pavel (Datsyuk), we have two of the best two-way forwards in the game. He's in his prime, he's won a Stanley Cup and a Conn Smythe Trophy. He plays at both ends of the rink and goes to all the hard areas. He can play left wing and score and play the middle and be just as effective. He gives us flexibility and is a leader, a guy who, when Nick Lidstrom retires, is certainly someone we'll have to consider as the next captain for the Red Wings."
"Pucks were supposed to be bouncing in more than they were bouncing out and I don't know, I kind of found it the other way around. It all depends on the angle that you shoot it on. The posts and the crossbar all funnel in towards the net but you have to be kind of shooting straight on from the net in order for it to work."
"It's almost a bad time for a break because we're playing as well as we have in a long time... We've really come a long way here."- Phoenix Coyotes bench boss Wayne Gretzky on how hot the Coyotes have been going into the All-Star break. Phoenix now sits 5th overall in the Western Conference.
“I didn’t know if things would come back right away. I probably played a little more than I expected. I still think I have a lot of work to do. This is a game that has a lot of adrenaline. It is just one game. There is a long way for me to go and a lot of building for me yet.”
“It definitely was a special night. It’s something I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”
"There is a price for everything, and if we have a chance at an impact player, we would evaluate the cost and see what happened."
“It’s timing, where you come in and shoot, you jam yourself a little bit. And when you’re trying to make a pass it goes over a stick. It felt exactly like where you are at the start of a season, where you’re trying to get it back, but the only way to get it back is to play games.”
"The boos weren’t too bad out there. I got it much worse when I played here. It was fine.”
"There's nothing like this. There's nothing like it at all. Listen to these fans. That's five, Canada."
"Championships aren't easy. They never are. We are where we wanted to be and while you can't say it was dominant in any way, we have been terrific scoring and not so terrific on the other side."
“I count myself very lucky. There’s not a guy in this league who wouldn’t like to play in these games. I’ve had the opportunity to play in three of them.”
"Here, Americans not care about what they were. In Moscow, is more high fashion. Russian girls more beautiful than American girls, too."
“I thought the crowd was great. It was a great atmosphere, outstanding. If we can have crowds like that every weekend, I don’t care who they’re cheering for. It was a great atmosphere in the building.”
"It's just one of those games where you can't get too excited out there. You got to stay focused out there for the full 60 minutes and we did a pretty good job."
"The fans will be raucous, strong and filled with high expectations and these young men are going to feel the same and that's an area you will pay a lot of attention to. These are important issues for this young group coming in, dealing with Ottawa, the passion of the public, the intensity of the scrutiny and holding up to those high expectations is quite a job for these young men."
''I was just trying to put the puck in the net and I felt that was the right thing to do.'' - John Tavares giving very detailed insight on how he scored a very impressive highlight reel goal in Team Canada's 7-0 exhibition victory over Slovakia on Tuesday night.
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“I was pretty nervous before they dropped the puck, but once they dropped the puck, it was just another game. I’m just glad I got this one over with.”
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