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People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

I was born and raised in Detroit.

I was always a decent hockey player, but I'd have never made the NHL.

People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.