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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.

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.

You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique.

My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

If you have the right horses and the right team, that's the way to succeed. But you have to work, and you have to improve. Every year, you must get better.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.