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.
