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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

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.

And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

You know there are so many people that have touched your life both on the ice and within your career in the NHL whether it be owners, GM's, coaches, players, trainers, all the way down. And that doesn't even account for all of the people that you encountered outside of the game that you met along this trip, too.

I am a huge hockey fan.

I'm a hockey fan; I watch hockey, and I listen to the news.

I'm not a hockey fan. I'm not a golf fan.

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids.