- If Trent (Klatt) can get 3 years at over $1M from someone else, God bless him, I'll drive him to the airport.
- They're going to be fined. I'm sick of answering questions about them and I'm sick of the media picking on them. There's no way Alex Auld is going to be on this team this year unless he flew to France in the summer and bathed in the holy waters at Lourdes.
- It's not a hockey team, it's a cult. They've got a total buy-in on there system. (About Minnesota Wild hockey)
- We never start these fights. Like, a General Manager never wakes up and says 'Hey, who can I fight with today in the media'. We pick up the newspaper and read some garbage story that should be at the bottom of a bird cage, or wrapping a fish ... or in the corner of a kitchen for a puppy to use, and it's something about our hockey team that's untrue and unfair, and now we fly off the handle and react.
- To move this team takes one phone call. One phone call. $0.25 on a pay phone to move this team. (On the lack of support the fans in Vancouver were showing the Canucks)
- Was Danny (Cloutier) the only player that didn't live up to his expectations, or our expectations in the second round, no. So shame on anyone that wants to say this is all Dan Cloutier's fault. (after the second round collapse against Minnesota)
- The math doesn't work. There's 10 or 12 teams that think they have a legitimate shot. They all load up, they all spend money, they all trade draft picks. There's only one cup.
- Start whacking these guys and it'll go away. And... uh... we can't let our game turn into European soccer. (on diving)
- There's no way, as long as I am in charge of the Vancouver Canucks, there's no way we're going to vote for that. To me, it'd be the same thing if the NFL were to decide games by having guys throw footballs through a tire. (on the shootout)
- I am again curbing my comments so I don't get fined... uh... if we're going to have asinine, insane, inflationary signings, than it suits me fine that most of them have been in the east so far.
- As far as Scotty (Bowman) getting fined for pushing the reporter, I'm going to send Scotty a cheque. I support Scotty fully.
- The only thing I'm surprised about is that I have not received anything from the league about this fine. I just saw it on TV, and I don't think that's any way to conduct business, and I'm really disappointed in that. (after getting fined for the comments above)
- I want to point out to the officials that Todd Bertuzzi does not play for Detroit. It just looks like that because he's wearing 2 or 3 red sweaters all the time. I didn't know that tackling was an acceptable tactic - I didn't see it in our rule book.... Sedin is not English for punch me or headlock me in a scrum.... Our goalie has large pads and a cage - he's clearly distinguishable from the rest of our players, and again, he's the one goalie on the ice that doesn't dive when he gets brushed.... Detroit has 12 captains and assistants that speak to the officials - we find that unusual, as most teams have only 2 or 3. It is amazing, to me, the number of players that are permitted to protest calls in Detroit uniforms. (during playoffs vs. Detroit; 2002)
- Were not about to kiss anyone's butt to play here. We've got a beautiful arena, we've got our own plane, and again, you're talking a great hockey market and one of the great cities in the world. So I'm not kissing anyone's behind to play here, it's just not going to happen. He wants out, I'm going to move him. (re: Pavel Bure 1998)
- [on the Calgary Flames, 2013] I want more hostility than I'm seeing out there right now. We've got to be big and more truculent. You're all waiting for the word, and there it is.
- We want black-and-blue hockey. That's what we do in Alberta.
- I don't like the way we play. I don't like flag football. I like teams that bang.
- I'm not a patient person. I was born impatient. I'm going to die impatient. Success can't come as fast as I want it to come.
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