I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.
By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
It doesn't matter whether I'm in an NHL arena, at a local rink, or on a sheet of ice in the middle of a baseball stadium: when I'm around the game, I feel at home.
A nontraditional hockey market is turning into more of a traditional market. We're now a fabric of Nashville.
Nobody would ever, ever get even remotely lippy about the Islanders with me, or there'd be bloodshed on the set of 'Entourage.' Everybody knows that you don't even go there.
No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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.
I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.
My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.
I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.
People will come up to me at live events or wherever and have me sign Canadian flags or the old 'Team Canada' shirt and have me talk about those days back in 'Team Canada,' so it's a moment that I'm proud of.
Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.
I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
I know hockey is growing in the U.S., and it's becoming more popular, but anything to get the game out there and see how we view it. We view it as the best game in the world.
I like Joe Sakic. Coming out of Buffalo, I obviously like Alexander Mogliny, Pat LaFontaine. Hasek is up there. Miroslav Satan. Whoever seemed to be a good player at the time I'd watch. Jagr too. I tried to learn a lot from those guys.
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 NHL is the best in the world, it has the best players. I love the NHL.
Hockey is the dream of all Swedes. They get the girls.
I grew up in a city just outside of Edmonton, St. Albert. So I watched NHL games with my grandpa. I watched a lot of games, back then it was called the Smythe Division, and it was just Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Winnipeg.
As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.
I love hockey, and I go to a lot of the games.
The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
India is known for hockey all over the world.
