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I love hockey. Hockey is my go-to sport. It’s my jam.
Dedicating your life to something, dedicating time to something, ending up achieving it and maybe doing better than that. Me personally, that would be a Stanley Cup. That’s something I’ve dreamed of my whole life. I think that’s why every hockey player at this level plays.
My wife likes the hockey smell because it’s the smell of a warrior.
The shoot-and-chase approach had become big in hockey. Teams would come up to the blue line and shoot the puck around our boards deep in our zone, then swarm in after it forechecking, trying to regain possession.
Hockey is not an individual game. It is rather a team game.
You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.
I guess I’d be nervous to skate and do hockey. Growing up in Hawaii there’s not a lot of ice.
As much as I enjoy TV, I’ve always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific – you’re talking all the time.
I’ve always been active: netball, hockey, rounders, athletics.
I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.
We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.
Maybe at the end of my figure skating career, I’ll be able to have just the one game I always dreamed of having. I’ve still got the skill, I think. I’d have to work on my stick-handling skills, but the speed and my hockey smarts are still there.
I am very passionate about Indian hockey.
I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It helps me.
There was a time there in the mid ’80s to the ’90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.
Growing up, if I hadn’t had sports, I don’t know where I’d be. God only knows what street corners I’d have been standing on and God only knows what I’d have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
You have to realize I grew up in a real hockey town. And there I was wearing bow ties and watching the gayest movies on the face of Earth, like ‘Clueless.’
Canada’s known as a hockey country and now we’ve proven that we can also play football as well.
If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.
I’m not a freak show. I’m a hockey player.
We have an edge over the Asian countries because we are playing European and Indian style of hockey, but we need to perform consistently.
I get mad at my mom. I really wish she’d put me into hockey. I’m not gifted with height, but look at Martin St-Louis. He’s unbelievable. He’s small, but he’s so fast, so skilful. I think I could have been pretty good.
When you win in Montreal, it’s the best place in the world to play hockey.
Stanley Cup hockey comes around every year, when games start to count in multiples of best-of-seven series, and the players seem to put more attention into every pass, every check, every annoying little trick.
You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.
I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.
A soccer star is on the field for two hours. In hockey, your star player is on the ice for 20 minutes.
I think I’m a mama’s boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I’m a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.
I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn’t make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn’t play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.
In Canada, it’s beer, hockey, and then everything else.
The thing about hockey for me is I’m really competitive and I like to have fun.
At first, I felt like I was put into this box because I played hockey. I thought that I was viewed a certain way, and I shouldn’t wear certain clothes. Finally, I stepped aside and said, ‘That’s someone else’s creation of me. I can be feminine and be strong.’
Hockey is a year-round job.
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Hockey is a difficult and skill-based game.
No matter who the captain is, on the hockey pitch it’s the goalkeeper who is leading the side because we have the best view of the field.
I didn’t know that I’d like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.
The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.
The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
I had a set schedule since I was 15, since I started playing junior hockey. When you don’t have that sometimes you try to find something new and it’s difficult.
Hockey has changed. The game has changed. You just have to be ready for that.
I’ve been watching the growth of Auston Matthews, for instance. If he were playing 20 years ago, we’d be saying he’s Mario Lemieux-like. He’s 6-foot-5. He skates great. He’s got unbelievable hands and a hockey IQ.
I’ve broken my wrist, dislocated toes and shoulders, gotten stitches, you name it. However, the worst was a severely bruised femur. I got body checked into an open gate while playing hockey. The doctor couldn’t believe I didn’t shatter my femur.
I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.
Hockey’s filled with great people, and it’s a great sport, and I encourage a lot of people to play it because of the relationships that you make in hockey.
Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.
I’m a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.
My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It’s a bit of a mess to watch!
Whether you’re trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I’ve always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it’s as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.
One of my first heroes was Jim Robson, the hall-of-fame broadcaster with the Canucks and Hockey Night in Canada, and Jim Ross with the WWE and Howard Cosell was a big influence on me.
I was super sporty in high school. I played tennis, field hockey, and lacrosse.
I’ve been acting since I was 8 – I used to play hockey and there was a kids’ theatre down the street from my house and one day I just walked in and signed up for auditions for ‘The Wizard Of Oz.’
I’m proud to be Russian. We have probably the best country in the world. Everything is the best: hockey players, cars, girls.
Where I grew up, hockey was the sport that 90 per cent of black kids at school played.
I would make hockey movies: I would edit together Flyers games and do highlight reels of goals or fights, which I still have to this day.
Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.
Thank you for reminding Canada that I’m a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I’m not an avid hockey – let’s face it, true Canadian – fan. I’ve always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I’m not crazy about hockey – but love it!
I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.
I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I’m comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that’s where I’m probably the least comfortable.
Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.
The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play – and I wasn’t a skater.
Why do I have to just focus on hockey? Why can’t I help people? Why can’t I have fun with my fans?
If you want to do something for the rest of your life, it’s not going to be easy, especially being a pro hockey player, so you need to work at it.
Here’s how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. ‘You’re listening to the highlights,’ Royko observed.
In any other context, ‘icing’ is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus – a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing. But in hockey, icing merely results in the referee’s raising his right hand, as if swearing an oath to the deity of downtime.
It’s life, it’s hockey. You just can’t worry about it.
I loved the idea of playing quarterback on Friday Night Lights in high school, that whole experience. I wanted to be a Division I quarterback, that became my goal growing up, other than being a professional hockey player.
I grew up a huge jock, a lot of basketball and football. We had a pond in my back yard growing up, and we played a lot of hockey, too. I loved to score goals.
Like all teenagers in the early ’60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we’d be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I’d always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.
I remember starting hockey at age 7 and going to my first tryout and dreaming about how great it would be, and it’s been even better. These 20 years in the NHL, it’s been better.
My son William and my daughter Amy are both really into their hockey now and I can enjoy watching that.
I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can’t cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.
You can’t play hockey with a bald spot, so I’m hanging up the skates.
One of my friends called me up and said kids in our village are playing hockey with PVC pipes. This is the change I wanted to see. Hopefully, we will be able to inspire the next generation.
If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We’d be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn’t affect our season.
It’s more fun to be playing hockey than doing anything else.
A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
The first few years were quite hard for me. It took time for me to understand what exactly is international hockey.
I played hockey until I was 13 or 14 years old.
I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse – prep school sport – and I was terrible at them.
That’s something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
I adore Twitter to the end of time. It is a wonderful thing, mainly for professional hockey coverage.
Definitely, I got a reputation growing up playing on the guys’ hockey teams. The guys knew how tough I was because I played with them. I got quite a good reputation for beating up boys going up through school.
Comedy is similar to hockey… in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it’s not my joke or moment.
I have met people who have called me the god of hockey, but in my head, I know who I am.
There is a lot of instinct that comes with playing hockey and playing a number of games and playing all the way up; you kind of get a feel for what’s gonna happen and make plays off that.
When I’m not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It’s funny because you’re in this little bubble when you’re working – you don’t read books, you don’t really keep up with the news, you’re just living that life.
If you’re a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.
It’s true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we’re the dominant hockey nation in the world.
My father played hockey until he was 18.
Diljit Dosanjh has been the best choice for playing me on screen. He has given a tremendous performance with true emotions and actions. He has not only delivered my feelings for each and every moment during my struggle post my injury but also worked hard to portray my personality as a hockey player.
But once I left home to play hockey, it was a commitment to be the best I could be and try to make the NHL.
It was either football or hockey. I chose football, and I think it’s worked out OK so far.
That was my pride and joy – that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.
I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it’s a terrific hockey market.
Usually when people eat sliders they’re really hard because they’re so small, so they’re like hockey pucks.
I always wanted to play ice hockey back in Australia, I’m not sure why, but we didn’t have any ice where I lived. It was very hot – a coastal town.
My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
I will openly admit that I’ve never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole – even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
I’ve been up in the Arctic Circle where they have hockey rinks that don’t have any heating. So it’s – 40 C outside, it’s – 55 inside. Or there’s a social centre but no budget for anybody to run any programs. Stuff we wouldn’t accept in Winnipeg, but we let it go on and on and on.
American politics are rich with characters and stereotypes – Joe the Plumber, Harry and Louise, Nascar dads and hockey moms, to name a few. But one persistent type hasn’t gotten much attention: the Republican football coach.
My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don’t think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.
John Davidson is one of the premier executives in the National Hockey League. As we continue to build a team that can consistently compete for the Stanley Cup, John’s knowledge of the game and his experience and passion for the Rangers logo make him the ideal choice to oversee our Hockey Operations department.
Wrestling toughest sport. We never take day off. We never have the offseason like the hockey or the football. We work year-round, and we never complain because you fight to be with biggest company in the world and you never ask for the time to rest.
If you’re dating the quarterback and then you go out with the hockey player, you just go to the hockey games. I don’t think I’ll still go to the football games.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
I played hockey, as most girls who go to convent schools in Ireland do, as well as table tennis and badminton – all the rock ‘n’ roll sports.
I know there are sort of misnomers that women’s hockey isn’t as physical or fast as the guys, but women’s hockey is very dynamic and tactful in its own ways. It’s just as respectable of a sport as any male counterpart.
I mean, that’s playoff hockey. You’re not going to dominate every game, you’re not going to score every goal.
I actually played hockey my whole life, all the way up until ninth grade.
I went by Kyle, and I made friends on the team as Kyle. It went on for a pretty long time, until I went to a birthday party in a dress and all the hockey players were like… ‘Kyle?’
Our economics are not baseball’s economics. Our game is not baseball’s game. Our owners are not baseball’s owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball’s union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.
My dad had this thing – everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that’s all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!
I just enjoy playing hockey obviously.
I’m an absolutely dreadful hockey player.
We continue to see more and more of that – games we didn’t necessarily know would work in VR until a developer goes in and discovers the game mechanic that makes it come together. Sure enough, hockey can be a great VR experience.
We had almost like our own little sports complex at the house. The driveway was like the pitching mound. We used to play one-on-one street hockey right there. My dad wanted to make sure we were ready to have some fun, so he was always out grabbing sports equipment.
I really love my family and kid, but first of all, it’s my hockey, my career. My family is second, and my fans go third. Sometimes my fans go second, and my family is third. It’s turning all the time.
A lot of my friends growing up were hunters, but I spent all my time on the ice hurting actual humans playing hockey. I never had the chance to run through the woods and shoot at a moose or deer. I was shooting pucks at goaltender’s heads.
People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case.
I’m awful at hockey.
My parents, they don’t say to me you have to play hockey. They just see me and how I love what’s going on on the ice, how I love this atmosphere.
Well, I come from a poor family. My father is a farmer. When I started playing, I wasn’t privileged enough to afford hockey pads and a kit, that was out of my reach.
I was a rugby player, I was a hockey player. You know, I just love to challenge myself, and I love to compete.
I love hockey, and I go to a lot of the games.
Obviously, being a hockey fan, I always bought all of the hockey games, so that makes this ‘NHL 2K7’ cover even more special to me.
For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.
I know that meeting a black woman with a love for hockey is a bit like stumbling upon a unicorn in the woods… or a unicorn anywhere. I’m sure it’d be just as surreal finding a unicorn in downtown Chicago. But here I am.
I was not the best student. Thank God I had a lot of hockey talent.
I grew up with all hockey players.
Even in Canada, I never even played ice hockey. I never skated in my life; I always did rollerblade street hockey.
Recently, my dad has been teaching me a lot – like how to read a script. It used to just be about hockey or baseball or sports of whatever. We don’t have glitzy or glamour-y Hollywood-type talk, like, ‘Isn’t that person great?’ It’s more about the process of how it works.
I was playing a relatively high level of hockey, and I thought that’s what I wanted to do. But I had my first movie audition, and I was hooked.
I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases – fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.
Growing up in Canada, I dated a few ice hockey players.
It’s not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.
When I was a kid, and the Hockey Night in Canada theme issued from our black-and-white Sylvania TV, I disappeared to the basement to listen to 45s and read the encyclopedias that my parents kept buying from travelling salesmen.
I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it’s football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There’s not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.
Hopefully when I make it to 80, I can go to a hockey game and watch the Predators and Capitals play with my grandkids. That’s probably my legacy on the hockey side.
I remember when I was young, I used to love hockey – I was selected to play for my county – and my dad said: ‘Well, there’s no money to be made in hockey,’ and it put me off for ever.
Before I broke my back, I was really looking forward to playing hockey at the University of Michigan. That was my biggest goal.
We’re a huge hockey family. I took to it really quickly, and I was in love with it.
That’s the fun part about your playing career is that everyone knows your first and foremost responsibility, and that’s playing hockey, but whenever you can mix in some other things have fun with it, that’s great, too.
My back has been compressed and operated on, my feet have been surgically cut up, and I have a knee that’s just going wacky. So I do my own driving, and I ski and skate. I’m playing hockey again. Anything that immobilizes my feet I’m OK with.
I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn’t grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.
My family members were always there and I was very fortunate for that I mean, I played hockey growing up. That was the sport everyone in Charlestown played back then, and I had skates and the equipment, but I was growing so fast, it became hard to afford new stuff every year. But hockey was it for me.
We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.
I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
I got into a car accident and couldn’t play baseball, hockey, and basketball. We stuck with golf for a little while, and it’s panned out. I think it was a blessing in disguise.
I think it’s fairly clear that playing hockey isn’t the same as playing football.
For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing – probably playing ice hockey.
As a kid growing up in Montreal, I wanted to become either a hockey player or a wrestler. Since my family didn’t have a lot of money, my parents never put me in a hockey league because it was so expensive.
I’m just really passionate about the game of hockey. It’s all I know and I love it.
The Himalayan glaciers, China’s trade surplus, Olympic ice hockey – the world is full of pressing subjects that people never consult me about.
In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I’m better able to promote women’s hockey and talk about women’s hockey and put a face to women’s hockey, to all the IOC members.
I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.
I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.
We had a whole bunch of perks after the Olympic games like having dinner with the Queen of England and being hosted by the Prince of Monaco. We got to drop pucks at hockey games. We got to go on quite a tour.
A lot of guys are missing teeth and don’t get them fixed until they’re done. I think that’s pretty much the hockey trademark… guys figure, well, we’re going to lose our teeth anyway, so we’ll get them fixed when we’re done.
I’ve always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it’s like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don’t think about anything.
For me, it’s not a struggle to go out and play hockey. Under pressure, I feel it to a certain extent… but, I’m not scared of it.
4chan’s culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It’s also important to realize that 4chan wasn’t some overnight success, and there was never ‘hockey stick’ – like growth.
I’m not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.
I would say it is important to have a good education, as hockey is a career that does not last many years, and you need to be prepared for this.
I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don’t have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.
My father used to play ice hockey, though not at a high level, and my mother wasn’t involved in sport at all, but they were keen that we played some sort of sport. They chose tennis because they thought it was a good sport for girls to play.
Sometimes it just feels like the only thing you do is play hockey and eat.
I think now what you’re seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.
After my grandmother finished watching ‘Lawrence Welk,’ my dad would race to the TV and put on the weekly hockey game. He loved watching Henri Richard, Gordie Howe and Terry Sawchuk. My dad’s seven brothers and sisters weren’t particularly thrilled with his viewing choices.
Being in hockey shape is totally different than any other kind of fitness. You can run and bike and work out all summer and then go on the ice for one shift and you’re dead.
When I was growing up, I played a lot of different sports. There was a time when I was playing field hockey, tennis, and soccer at the same time. I was actually quite good at all of those sports.
Hockey wasn’t invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith’s deeply personal ‘Puckstruck,’ sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.
When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.
I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don’t always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.
My hope, it’s not only my hope, but all of the NHL hopes to raise hockey in China because it’s a good country to raise hockey.
We might have, with Hockey Canada, an Aero Bar, a chocolate bar. ‘Okay we’re going to play for this chocolate bar.’ Here you have guys who made millions of dollars, they’re professional athletes, and they will fight tooth and nail to win. It’s not necessarily for the chocolate bar. It’s the competitive spirit.
Even when you’re being safe, eight hours of choreography makes you look like you’ve been through a war. It’s hard. It’s like playing hockey for eight hours.
There are certain guys that think they know hockey because they follow it on the Internet.
My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.
I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this… to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.
I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug… I never looked into playing it professionally.
When I was 5, I’m like,’ I’m doing this,’ whether there’s women’s ice hockey, men’s ice hockey, whatever it was in my future.
My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned – the captain earns that role; it’s not because he’s the coach’s son. These are all things we know, but in today’s world, it’s not a bad idea to remind ourselves.
I’ve been playing hockey since I was five years old. It’s a part of my life.
It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I’m still a huge fan.
I’ve slept through a mild earthquake in Italy. And also a very tight hockey game where people were screaming their heads off.
I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
It’s good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.
I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
Canadian hockey fans… They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.
Hockey lends itself to special events, including the Olympic competition: a glorious tournament of the best players in the world, putting on their national jerseys and playing on big rinks with no-goon Olympic rules and referee enforcement.
I never look at myself as a black player. I think of myself as a hockey player that wants to be the best player in the league.
Hockey is not a one-man show; it’s a team effort. If you don’t work as a team – even if one or two guys aren’t working – you’re not going to win. That’s the way it is.
I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.
It wasn’t until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a couple of goals here and there, but I wasn’t the most graceful thing you’ve ever seen.
When I was at the end of middle school and the beginning of high school, I fell in love with hockey in a serious way.
I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that’s where it all started, watching the Winnipeg Jets play as a young kid.
I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.
People who wave digital cameras at shows are the same people who sit in front of you at hockey games and wear those giant foam-rubber fingers that say, We’re number one!’
I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it’s kind of the law that you love hockey.
I am a huge hockey fan.
I don’t just want to be a drag-flicker. I want to be become a complete hockey player.
If there is hockey or football and cricket on my television, I prefer to watch hockey.
Obviously as a kid you collect hockey cards.
Hockey has changed drastically over the years. Indian greats then played on grass. Now we play on astro-turf.
My dream is to see athletes also getting the same recognition, fame, success and money as cricketers, footballers and hockey players get in India.
When it comes to hockey, it’s been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.
In hockey, you get to meet a lot of different people and become friends with them. It is definitely a special sport. I love that part of it.
Growing up in Finland, ice hockey was the main sport. But I never played that. I went with footy. I never had any other hobbies.
I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I’ve come back because I was – and am – a racing driver. This is what I do.
Hopefully my time in Nashville has helped me. We’ve had a lot of different things happen to our hockey club, seen a lot of different situations and different types of clubs from an expansion team to a Stanley Cup playoff threat. I think any coach that’s gone through those things, you become a better coach.
My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys’ hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.
In the summer, I would play street hockey every day with my cousins and my brothers. And in the winter we’d play on the backyard rink.
We encourage the growth of women’s hockey.
You want to win hockey games, and it doesn’t really matter how you do it.
Like cricket, hockey too needs to be a lucrative career option.
I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.
For good reasons, there are no ties during the Stanley Cup season. Somebody needs to win so the lads can get out to their cottages on the lakes, where all hockey players spend their summers, or so I have been told.
Halifax is a big hockey city. Everyone loves the game here and really enjoys anyone who has had success.
I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.
I think for me, personally, I’m a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I’ve been growing up. You turn it on, and it’s one of the first stories – the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don’t really see on that station. That’s cool to see.
I covered hockey for a few years in the late ’90s and early 2000s for the ‘Colorado Springs Gazette,’ and I covered the Avalanche for some of the glory years. I’ve done hockey off and on as a sportswriter but never played it.
Growing up, I played hockey because I loved playing it. I didn’t view myself in minor hockey as a Black hockey player, but I was also aware that I was.
I’ve always just tried to stick with what works, and sometimes you go through funks – not only in just hockey but in general.
When I try to relax, it’s more Swedish rock, softer music, and I go out and do fun stuff. I play guitar, but it doesn’t matter really what it is – just something that keeps you away from hockey.
I would never tell anybody to give up hockey – the great sports we have here – basketball, lacrosse – rugby coming into its own – we’ve got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.
And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.
After his hockey days, my dad became a photographer, and a really good one, at that. He used to shoot the Expos and Canadiens, and he’d give me five bucks to haul around his equipment during games. He never had to ask me twice to do it.
I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it’s a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that’s our religion, that’s our football.
I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.
Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.
I played hockey with the best of them.
I still believe it is important that children have a chance to play other sports because they all offer learning experiences. Soccer is a growing sport and would be a good complement to hockey.
I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, ‘Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.’
Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.
I know hockey is not as popular as cricket in India, but I hope in future, every renowned hockey player should be given a fitting farewell rather than ignoring them.
I didn’t realize the connection between the mullet and success. For sure, you have to have a little bit of hockey hair – a little bit of flow, as they say. A lot of guys have fun with their hockey hair, so I’ll try to keep it a little long.
I used to run the band hockey pool – regular season and playoffs. I would write weekly reports, which were meant to demoralize and diffuse enjoyment for others.
For a family to have five kids and to have emigrated from the West Indies, my father from Jamaica and my mother from Montserrat – it’s not easy to provide for five kids let alone put three kids in AAA hockey, one being a goalie, and put two daughters through university.
I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas – but I did too!
I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.
Where in normal neighborhoods, they would play stick ball and hockey and baseball, we used to slap box and bring boxing gloves down the street and box each other.
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn’t nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
If there can be films about why hockey (and not just cricket) is cool, there can be a film or two about the virtues of honest, hard work.
I played every sport but hockey.
I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to play hockey, especially when there weren’t equal opportunities as there are now. But at times, it was challenging.
We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it’s totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.
I am a pretty tough guy. I’m an old hockey player.
I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.
But inside of me I knew that the Olympics were still there. I was still young enough. I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back.
If I learned one thing by playing professional hockey for thirty-two years, it’s that you have to love what you do. And that’s not just true for sports.
I’m not stereotypically Canadian. I don’t really follow hockey. I don’t feel like anything other than myself, basically.
I still have my teeth. I don’t want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game.
I think Hero Hockey India League is the world’s best hockey league.
You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.
Hockey is the dream of all Swedes. They get the girls.
Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I’d walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend’s door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.
People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.
All time faves would be ‘Smash TV,’ ‘NHL Hockey,’ ‘Grand Theft Autos,’ ‘NBA Lives,’ ‘Sonic.’
It’s only 60,000. It’s not a big town. It’s a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.
Boxing should not let – we should not let – the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can’t do it in basketball, football, hockey.
I’ve always enjoyed working with kids whether it be hockey school, things like that, and I just thought it would kind of be neat to start there with a book for kids.
I really did love hockey. It was one of my favorite things to do.
Being a ballet dancer isn’t cool. Football, boxing, hockey… they’re cool. And you make more money.
I don’t like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don’t like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it’s essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
Seriously, I faced a lot of anti-Semitism playing hockey as a kid. It motivated me to play well and to punch everyone who was anti-Semitic. I was taunted and called names. I’d either beat them with a goal or with my fists.
It’s really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.
I create, for whatever reason, a busy schedule, but I watch hockey, all the games, either on the PC or TV. The world is now HD, and this is very good.
Hockey players are given as much respect as any other sportsperson in our country.
I remember playing hockey as a kid – I was goalie in gym class and I was pretty good at it. But basketball was my passion. As a kid I went to class, came back from school, did my homework and went straight across the street to practice.
Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.
Hockey’s my favorite sport.
Outdoor hockey is what it is all about.
Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It’s basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.
Canada is hockey.
When I was 5 years old, I told my grandmother I was going to play hockey in the Olympics. Fifteen years later, I competed in my first Olympics.
I grew up in the streets in Boston in a row-home neighborhood playing hockey.
Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.
I had to unlearn cricket to learn hockey. It is easier for someone who is not a sportsperson to pick up hockey. They just have to learn it.
But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
The wrestling is real, all the injuries are real, so much so that in no other sports, whether soccer or cricket or hockey, players get so many injuries as in WWE.
I’m not looking for anything more than any other guy. I like a good smile. Pretty eyes. She has to be active, like not play-sports active, but she’ll play air hockey, do some pool, go for rides on the Santa Monica Pier. I would much rather have fun with her than do the cool thing.
Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.
If you’re giving me tickets to the football game, baseball game or hockey game, I’m taking the tickets to the hockey game. For me, it’s by far the most fun sport to go and watch live and be part of. I just don’t know why it doesn’t translate as well on TV.
I have six brothers and one sister, and I was an ice hockey player when I was younger. I think my dad thought I was going to be in the women’s league for ice hockey. But, I totally fell in love with drama in grade school, and I asked my mom if I could get involved with it.
I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You’d go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we’d play.
In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It’s your social position; it’s everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.
I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.
All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know.
I don’t know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don’t have to protect each other much, unless there’s like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it’s important that they look out for each other.
It’s kind of funny the way it happened – the way I became a goalie. I was playing forward on this one team when I was little, and there was another team that needed a backup goalie. I mean, to me it just meant a chance to play more hockey, so I was all for it.
The beauty of hockey players is that they make everyone feel included and make everyone feel a part of it.
I’m a big hockey fan.
It’s one of those things that when you hear about the games played by Gordie Howe, you think it’s one of those things that’s untouchable. He was part of the League for so long. You wouldn’t have dreamed of anybody touching that milestone. So when you’re beating one of Mr. Hockey’s records, it’s impressive.
Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief – the NHL still permits fights.
It wasn’t easy to act when dressed in the heavy ice hockey uniform – it was exhausting.
My brother Barry was into all sports, and so was my late father. For me, hockey was the one sport I loved and played. I didn’t really pay much attention to the other sports.
When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.
It is a huge honor for me to be an ambassador for the entire Washington Capitals organization and the National Hockey League for this special trip to China.
I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.
We have a very good history in hockey and when I look back into my own career, I know I do have a lot of FIH medals, I have medals almost in every tournament but not one in World Cup or Olympics.
My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it since Rocket Richard. I was young when it happened, but I remember it very distinctly.
I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn’t have much hockey going on.
At times during hockey, I know myself, you get so wrapped up in it, you squeeze your stick a little too much, all those things, or you’re too focused.
I was in the football, rugby, cricket and hockey teams at school; bit of squash. Tennis obviously.
I’ve lived and breathed hockey my entire life.
If you play hockey, you might as well win.
Skating is big in Chicago. There’s a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.
I was a better hockey player than I was a baseball player.
But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.
Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.
The fact is I’ve been the kind of parent who has been there at every single sports day, my kids are achievers at school, scoring fantastic grades, they’re part of the football and hockey team. In that aspect, people always saw me as a parent whose children have always gone from strength to strength.
Amitabh Bachchan and SRK are great actors, but I like the way Suniel Shetty has handled his work. He’s doing so many things at one time. He’s a sincere actor, he has his own production company, other businesses and he’s even the brand ambassador for hockey.
Hockey is definitely a huge sport in Boston.
I think the NHL has done a great job of building the sport as far as getting the people’s attention and letting them know what’s going on in hockey – especially when the powers meet each other.
A different type of human has to play that sport. Hockey players keep fighting – nobody cares what’s wrong with you, as long as you have one foot to skate on, you keep playing.
I’m so busy right now, it’s the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.
I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.
When you play hockey, you don’t have any fear. As soon as you step on the ice everything goes away and you’re focusing on the puck and focusing on the play.
I’d been playing everything and decided that this was something I maybe wanted to make a career out of. I knew where some companies were, but I saw the name ‘Bethesda, Maryland’ on ‘Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3.’
To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.
I started ice-skating when I was about 12 or 13 and I was selected in the Australian team for ice hockey. I met my wife at St Moritz Ice Skating about 1955.
I think that in all aspects of the game, especially in professional sports but specifically in hockey, we want to grow the game.
I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, ‘You can like Mozart and ice hockey…’ – and then I used to say ‘golf,’ but Tiger took over golf! – ‘and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.’
Growing up, I ate, slept and breathed hockey. I got home from school, I shot pucks, played outdoor hockey, road hockey, go home for dinner… Remember this is pre-Internet, barely any video games, I had a Commodore Vic-20. If you weren’t doing your homework, you were outside playing hockey, most likely.
Confidence is something I hope to instill in my son, Taylor, who is studying classical civilisation at Exeter University and is a brilliant hockey player. His mum and I have parted, but I have nothing but admiration for her.
I was lucky enough to have a hockey career in the NHL.
I am not a big fan of hockey.
Whether somebody is really competent – whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he’s a good person to lead a hockey club – is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.
Hockey is my passion, and I cannot live without it.
I know everyone wants to see India winning on home soil, be it in hockey or cricket. But sometimes with expectations come pressure, which can affect our performance.
My first love was hockey, but it seemed the more I skated and danced with Tessa, the more I fell in love with the sport.
The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.
I’ve always played hockey to win, not to get shutouts.
People who know the game of hockey, who followed hockey, they know who Sandeep Singh is. They know I have been Indian Hockey team’s captain, but they don’t know about the struggle and the life after being shot.
I love hockey. That’s actually one of my favorite sports.
I found my prince – he’s a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I’d ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.
The little things are what get you to the next level. I believe in the little things. The screens you don’t see in the stats, the hockey assists. I’m a big believer in that.
I think I have a lot more respect for someone who will be bold enough to say, ‘I’m the leader of the hockey team, we’re going to go there and give our best game and we’re going to win the hockey game.’
I am grateful to hockey. As a CBC employee, I would be foolish not to be. Hockey Night in Canada probably pays a good chunk of my salary.
The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.
I like ice hockey, but it’s a frustrating game to watch. It’s hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
It was a fun ride. I’ve enjoyed my time on the ice and I’ve enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.
The support from back home has been more than I ever expected. They always knew me as the lacrosse player or the girl playing field hockey. Now they’re seeing me on national TV, and they’ve been so supportive.
It’s an amazing honor to be the fourth Black hockey player to go into the Hall of Fame. It’s a huge thrill.
Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
I really don’t think you need a letter on your jersey to be a leader on a hockey club.
Every Christmas we went to my parents’ cottage. My big brother would bring his buddies around, and we would play hockey games in the driveway.
I’ve been playing hockey games since the Sega Genesis way back when.
You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of money, you do silly things – because it’s pretty to have a golf course and it’s interesting to have a hockey team.
I started playing street hockey, but there were tennis courts near my house, and it was my father who suggested I try. I don’t really know why.
There were no women’s players I knew of. I didn’t even know women’s hockey existed.
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports – I’ll watch everything except maybe hockey.
Some anthems are great for sports. You’ve got the Russian national anthem… ‘O Canada,’ how wonderful is that for hockey… but I chose the Italian national song because at my first World Cup, I saw the Italians play four times, and they won all four times – they won the championship.
I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.
Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.
It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn’t thinking about hockey is important.
I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I’d finished playing, I had to go to work.
When you’re in the hockey team, you’re treated like a VIP. There are people around you looking after you, making sure you get 7-8 hours of undisturbed sleep every day.
Hockey was my favorite sport my whole life until I played football.
When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.
I am addicted to hockey now. I’ve seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.
I still love hockey. It’s just I’m at a different stage of my life and I think I’m just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.
I’ve announced every kind of sporting event except hockey and demolition derby, and to be frank about it, I don’t really care to ever do those.
You see a hockey player, you’d never know he’s a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
I’d love to be a role model for black kids, whether they play hockey or not.
