Hockey players are given as much respect as any other sportsperson in our country.
For good reasons, there are no ties during the Stanley Cup season. Somebody needs to win so the lads can get out to their cottages on the lakes, where all hockey players spend their summers, or so I have been told.
It is no fun lining up in your own building - as the hockey players say - and touching the hands of fellow stubbly louts who have just sent you off to the proverbial cabin on the lake.
We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.
I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.
We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.
I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It helps me.
Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.
I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.
I actually played hockey my whole life, all the way up until ninth grade.
Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.
I'm not superstitious about anything in my life - except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don't like talking about it. I don't like making predictions.
When you play hockey, you don't have any fear. As soon as you step on the ice everything goes away and you're focusing on the puck and focusing on the play.
I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?'
Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.
I saw the older kids entering the rink carrying hockey sticks and bags, and I was fascinated by the equipment. Once I started skating faster, I was attracted to the speed and dynamics of hockey. I never looked back!
I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.
All time faves would be 'Smash TV,' 'NHL Hockey,' 'Grand Theft Autos,' 'NBA Lives,' 'Sonic.'