“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
Wayne Gretzky
“He's not going to do anything flashy. He's not going to skate the puck end to end. He's not going to have 15 hits a game, because his body just won't allow him to do that. But he knows how to play within his means.”
Derek Laxdal
“They protected well and deserve a lot of credit, but when you're not skating, it's a lot easier for them to do.”
Randy Cunneyworth
“We tell them we'll take anybody — if you can stand on skates, with 20 pounds of equipment on, you're not going to get hurt.”
Jennifer Brown
“We want an exciting team, a quick team, a fast team, a puck-moving, skating, attacking team, and to do that you need to put players in place who have those skills.”
Bob Gainey
“We're not skating, we're not hitting, we're not doing anything. When we had the lead, we never really went after them. We sat back and waited for the other team to score. It's been like that most of the year.”
Peter Forsberg
“I was skating back and yelling at him to freeze the puck. I was assuming that he was going to but he had a different idea. That's why communication is important.”
Sheldon Souray