I’m chasing perfection.

“My dad had this thing – everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that’s all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!”

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Feb 17, 2019

“Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don’t even have to go to the hospital.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“The playoffs separate the men from the boys, and we found out we have a lot of boys in our dressing room.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“I often look at the guys who can whistle before a game and shake my head. You’d think they didn’t have a care in the world. Me? I’m just plain miserable before every game.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“The top three worst things I’ve seen in hockey? The invention of the trap. The invention of the morning skate. And the invention of the extremely ugly uniform.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“People don’t know how fantastic women’s ice hockey is. People don’t know how fantastic hockey is in general.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“In any other context, ‘icing’ is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus – a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing. But in hockey, icing merely results in the referee’s raising his right hand, as if swearing an oath to the deity of downtime.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“You’ve always been ‘The Great One,’ but tonight you’ve become The Greatest.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?”

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Feb 17, 2019

“Why is a puck called a puck? Because dirty little bastard was taken.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“I guarantee we’ll win tonight.”

Novel Quote

Feb 17, 2019

“A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can’t hit one another.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“Great moments are born from great opportunities.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“Hockey is murder on ice.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.”

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Feb 17, 2019

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