Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 5)

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing… everything else is just figure skating. 

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Goaltenders are three sandwiches shy of a picnic. From the moment primitive man lurched erect, he survived on the principle that when something hard and potentially lethal comes toward you at great velocity, get the hell out of it's path.

Canadian hockey player
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Early in the year, after a bad game, I said to my kids in the car, this is my last year and the next day I was getting phone calls from the school about whether I was retiring.  And that was in October.

(1961 – ) Canadian hockey player & owner
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I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

Canadian-born American hockey player
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I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained him.  He was too talented and too great a player.  When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck it was a good play.

Canadian hockey player
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Since my kids were born, I put on a shield. I wanted to keep on seeing them.

Russian hockey player
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No big deal. I just watched the game. I had the best seats of anyone in the crowd. It was awesome.

Czech hockey player
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I didn’t drop my gloves. They were yanked off me.

professional hockey player
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Daneyko got mad when Kaminski said he was going to knock his teeth out. Dano only has two teeth left, so you can't say that to Dano.

Canadian hockey player & coach
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We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but… uh… [smile]

Canadian hockey player
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Hockey is a game played by six good players and a home team.

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A goal, an assist and a fight.

American ice hockey player
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It was like skating inside a pop can.

Canadian hockey player
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War is hell, but expansion is worse.

hockey coach
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 A good fighting club will beat a club that has superstars on it every time.

Canadian hockey coach & general manager
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You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

(1961 – ) Canadian hockey player & owner
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He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her.  I said: You want to what?’ I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
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We know how much fans enjoy a good brawl, so we are going to guarantee a fight. If there is not a single five-minute fighting major given to a player, every fan in attendance will receive a free ticket to the following home game.

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The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

Boston Bruins general manager
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It's going to be good to be on his side for a change. I'll save a lot of energy since I don't have to concentrate on whacking him. I'm pretty excited about that.

Canadian hockey player
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For the Leafs, there are two kinds of games: those they lose because of the officiating and those they win despite the officiating.

Ottawa Mayor
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