Pink glows with emotions.

“I’m not superstitious about anything in my life – except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don’t like talking about it. I don’t like making predictions.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn’t thinking about hockey is important.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to play hockey, especially when there weren’t equal opportunities as there are now. But at times, it was challenging.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this… to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“If you’re a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“My most visceral childhood memory is getting home from hockey. Much of our family time revolved around hockey, and it rains a lot in Perth, and we’d get home tired and wet in our tracksuits, and the smell I’d hold in my nose is of mother’s vegetable soup.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year’s Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men’s hockey team a chance against the world powers.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It helps me.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“To me, a hockey player has to be every sport rolled into one: ice skater, baseball player, football player, etc. It’s just incredible to watch!”

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Feb 17, 2019

“Whether somebody is really competent – whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he’s a good person to lead a hockey club – is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“I am addicted to hockey now. I’ve seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“Whether you’re trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I’ve always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it’s as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“I love hockey. Hockey is my go-to sport. It’s my jam.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“I would be trying to play hockey with my friends, but most of the time, the coach put me on the bench. Because I was too dreamy – I was dreaming all of the time. I was super bad on the ice because I was just thinking about something else.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we’re teaching – not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values – are sinking in.”

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Feb 17, 2019

“Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game… I still love it to this day.”

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Feb 17, 2019

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