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I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.

We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.

I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.

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'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

You have to want to put a competitive, Stanley Cup-caliber team on the ice in contrast to wanting to hopefully someday financially break even. So you have to really balance expenses with revenue.

As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.