To Pavel, You can skate faster than your dad can swim, BEst Wishes, Mark Spitz
--Signed picture from Mark Spitz located on Pavel Bure s wall

Nobody loves it. I've never met anybody who does. No matter how big you are, it hurts.
--Pavel Bure on bodychecking

Sometimes if I would get an E, I'd say, 'So what? I play hockey well. I'm going to be a hockey player.' Sometimes I'd play hockey, we'd lose and I wouldn't score a goal and I'd say 'So what? Big deal. I got five A's. I'll be a smart guy. Who needs hockey?'"
--Pavel Bure on school

I would have looked like a guy in ZZ top.
--Chicago's slumping forward Muray Craven when asked if he had been planning to grow a beard until he scored his next goal.

I probably sound like Yvon Lambert used to sound when he spoke English. I can say a lot of words with a French accent but I beat the language up pretty good.
--Oiler's defenceman Kevin Lowe on his proficiency in Canada's other official tongue.

There was no attempt to replace Cam Neely, no free agent signing. It wears on you. It's a long year. I just got very frustrated and opened my mouth.
--Former Bruin Adam Oates on ripping his former management

I always wanted to represent a player whose jersey would someday hang in the rafters but unfortunately, in the Bruins' case, I think they wanted to hang it with Adam still in it.
--Brian Cook, the agent for Adam Oates

He's been brought up in a hockey culture so he understands the ramifications of leadership--that the go-to guys have to perform every night for your team to succeed. A lot of highly skilled players in the NHL somehow miss the boat on leadership and reliability.
--Washington coach Jim Schoenfeld on new acquisition Oates.

That guy has seen more rubber than a dead skunk on a highway.
--Owen Nolan on his team's ability to protect goaltender Kelly Hrudey.

Taking a practice off in Boston, they look at you like you just killed your mother.
--Ex-Bruin Rick Rocchet on Boston pressuring its players.

He's a real solid defenceman. He has good mobility and better than average offensive skills.
--Paul Holmgren in his poor attempt to defend Frank Kucera

It's pretty funny when you think about it actually, at that time of night there's be three cops sitting there waiting.
--Mike Griere on the fact that him and two other teammates (Jason Arnott and Greg De Vries) were fined for speeding all on the same night while driving home from their match with Tampa Bay.

It was nice of them to announce it on the P.A. It was even nicer they didn't say it took me 11 years.
--Kelly Buchberger on reaching the 200-point plateau Wednesday.

I can't believe it. I've been traded for a fusbal table. You'd think tehy could have gotten a warm body for me.
--ex-Flame Jamie Huscroft, noticing the fusbal table arriving in Calgary's dressing room shortly after his trade to Tampa Bay.

Guys like Tony Granato, Todd Gill and Bernie Nicholls, after 60 games, they were spent, they had no gas at all. There were time when we'd play Gill 30 minutes. Now look at him. He's anemic. His pants don't fit any more. They're two sizes too big.
--San Jose coach Al Sims on having to over-play the three veterans due to injuries.

Toddy Marchant said keep your head up. I told him I couldn't find who was saying it.....he's too little
--Ex-Oiler Jeff Norton on being bid farewell by the 5'10 175 pound Marchant.

Luc Robitaille, Luke Richardson and Luke Skywalker for Chewbacca, Ray Ferraro and Rob Blake.
--Detroit third-string goalie Kevin Hodson's fantasy trade.

So, you got another team into the cellar, eh, Dino
--Wings' Coach Scotty Bowman to Dino Cicarelli following a recent game between Tampa and Detroit.

I'd like to see what he'd do with a mediocre team. He always picks the right teams.
--Ciccarelli's rebuttal.

I'm not here to part the Red Sea, but I will do my job.
--Nick Kypreos on returning to action after sitting out three months with a broken ankle.

IF we want to consider ourselves a top team, we can't react to the other team. Our game is energy. And energy starts at 0-0; not when we're down 4-3.
--Dallas coach, Ken Hitchcock

Toronto fans we know and hate. Boring, stolid, lemming-like in their devotion to a team that has done nothing to earn their loyalty in 30 years.
--Montreal Gazette columnist Jack Todd on the rivalry which still remains between the Habs and the Leafs.

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