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We may have created the biggest monster that the Western Hockey League has ever experienced. Ken Hodge now is going to be tuned loose to do what he really, really loves doing.

We may move him to ice hockey and see if he likes it.

He was absolutely dominant, ... He controlled the tempo and played a wonderful hockey game. A lot of guys did.

He was a good goaltender and we liked him a lot, but the bottom line was we we did what we thought was best for the hockey club at that time.

He competes hard all the time. He's ready to jump at his opportunity to make this hockey club.

He was really the foundation of hockey in Atlanta. This is a big loss to the Atlanta hockey community. I hope people realize that.

He was playing his best hockey of the year. It is a hole and it's a lot of minutes that need to get spread around. Your top-minute guy is the hardest guy to lose.

He was playing well enough to get called up last week but we want him to play his American Hockey League games.

We lost our composure for six or seven minutes and that cost us. It doesn't surprise me (because) that's been our biggest issue all year is having discipline and having composure. This time of year, it's magnified and you have to be even stronger and you've got to have a stronger will and stay in the hockey game.

We lost some guys from last year, but I think they did a good job of keeping this team intact, and we think we've got another good shot at a Cup here. With Colorado, it's always going to a special game for both teams. There's been such a great history of great hockey between us.

He did everything he could to get hockey going at every level.

I am having discussions regarding the mandatory use of visors in our league with the stakeholders in our league, which includes the team owners, league personnel, the players' association and the National Hockey League. Unfortunately, it takes an incident like that to refocus attention on the issue.

I am a Devils fan, but more than that, a hockey fan. I love to watch whatever game happens to be on. To be honest, while it is a shame that they are not playing, I have found other things to do. At this point, I really don't care if or when they come back.

I always say, it doesn't matter how busy I am and how early in the morning it is. The one thing I can always manage to get energy for is to see my kid (Ben) play hockey. I love my job as prime minister, but if you could be a hockey player, I mean, what could be better than that?

He turned out to be a great hockey player with a lot of achievements. I'm very happy for him. He carried it very, very well.

He has brought a far more professional approach to hockey in Scotland, and his knowledge and dedication to the game has the respect of the players.

He has everyone in the National Hockey League surprised. We didn't expect him to be this physical or this dominating so early in the season,

He has given us a big lift by being in the lineup and logging so many minutes. He is on our top power- play unit. He has great hockey sense. He loves to play the game and is such a tough competitor.

He has great hockey sense and he can score. He rarely gives up scoring chances against him.

He is a tremendous hockey player so you've got to know if he is going to play or not. Regardless of him being there 100 percent or not there, it doesn't change the approach of our game.

He held us in a hockey game that maybe we did not deserve to be in.

He's a young guy. When you have the privilege of playing for the greatest hockey country, there are only so many players. It's not that he's not worth being there, it's just because he's in a situation that Team Canada has a new wave of young players.

He's been a big part of USA hockey for a long time. It's surprising. He's kind of synonymous with USA hockey.

He scored 34 goals in juniors (with Kingston of the Ontario Hockey league in 1997-98). He's more than capable of scoring 30-plus or 40-plus goals in our league. He just needs to get it set in his mind, and I think he's believing more and more than he has that ability.

He has a workmanlike attitude as every member of their hockey club does. You have to credit them with their work ethic.

He has been successful with his experiences at several levels of play, including playing for the Czech National Team and representing the Czech Republic in the World Junior and World Championship tournaments. We feel he is ready to make the transition to professional hockey in North America.

He had to gain a much better understanding of when to try one-on-one hockey and when he could try some of the moves he has.

He had a shutout against Marian, and it really started to boost him up. He's playing his best hockey right now.

He was unbelievable. When you get 55, 56 shots, you hope to win hockey games. It's a game we should've won.

Holly is an outstanding hockey player. She's definitely been a great addition to our program. She has eased right into being a first-year starter.

His treatment will prohibit him from playing hockey through the remainder of the season. We are hopeful he will be discharged from Baptist Hospital in the next few days.

Hockey Canada believes in a safe environment for all players and commends commissioner Dave Branch and the Ontario Hockey League for its stance on hazing this past week,

Hockey can be a real tough business with the slimmest of profit margins, obviously.

Hockey cards are on fire this year. Yankees' cards are always popular. I don't think I could ever make it if I just did baseball or football.

Hockey could be a fairly solid niche market. In many parts of the country, the selection of products is fairly scarce.

Hockey Day in Canada has become an unofficial holiday for Canadian hockey fans everywhere. It is important that we take one day to gather our friends and family together to pay tribute to our wonderful game.

Hockey has always been a big deal here with the boys program. But people are starting to realize what we're doing. That's good, because we really do have a good team.

Hockey has to repair the damage that has been done.

Hockey is a confidence game and, when you are hurt, you lose some of that confidence. I'm really looking forward to the playoffs because I missed all those games early. I want to be in fine form and top shape and really have a good postseason.

Hockey is a game where intimidation is still a part of the game, and you'll go to great lengths to try to win a game. If you know a player has an injury or weakness, he becomes vulnerable. He becomes targeted.

Hockey is a physical sport and injuries are an everyday part of our game. A key to our success is treating those injuries with the highest possible level of health care and that's what we receive from our team physicians at Detroit Medical Center.

Hockey is a religion in Canada and there will be a disproportionate amount of coverage of this. It is an issue we would rather have not occurred and we hope it doesn't take away from some of the other athletes.

Hockey is a weird game, and once you get that confidence, it just rolls and you roll with it. He's making great plays in the defensive zone, not just the offensive zone... We're going to ride him as long as we can.

Hockey is hot again. February is off to a good start, too. And we haven't even really got into baseball, softball and golf sales yet.

Hockey is important, but you have your life.

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.

Hockey is losing a great man. Any time a guy like that walks off the ice, you say, 'Thank you for the memories.

Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk.

Hockey is real important because it gives my kids something to do. It's a big part of our lives, a big part of our lives.

Hockey is steeped in our city's history and is a common touch point for Torontonians. It's time that Toronto hosted the world juniors. We know Torontonians will embrace this championship tournament, which will leave a lasting legacy for our world-class city.

Hockey is supposed to fun. I think the only way to win is to have fun with it. You can't be uptight before the game. Everyone is going to be nervous, us especially being here for the first time, but I think just having fun with it is going to make everything easier.

Hockey is the original extreme sport. These guys are flying down the ice on steel blades going 30 mph and slapping pucks 100 mph.

Hockey is the ultimate team sport. You have to have all of the pieces working together. My example is I always use is Wayne Gretzky. He would often be in front of the net and get the puck from two guys who were getting the heck pounded out of them in the corner. They were making a lot less than him. They get bloody. Gretzky puts the puck in the net and he gets the glory.

Hockey I think is going to change and evolve tremendously in the next two years,

Hockey players are doing everything that other athletes do and more, but we're doing it on ice. We've got to be able to avoid body contact like basketball and football players, and we've got to be able to handle this puck with our sticks?while we're moving on eight-inch steel blades. Hockey uses every single muscle in the body, without exception.

Hockey said, 'We've got to come up with a way that this will work.' Every sport's done it. NASCAR did it, ... How are we going to grow to the next level? How do we get TV excited about this? That's what we're doing.

Hockey was not really on the map until now. And I think with a game like that you can show the world how Swiss hockey is.

Hockey will be a marquee sport for the network. Adding hockey to our lineup when the NHL returns to the ice with a fresh season, new energy, new players and new attitude adds tremendous value to OLN.

His test is going to be consistency. The great players do it for 10 years, and I'm sure that he will be able to handle that. He's just so all about hockey that I can't see why he wouldn't.

Good hockey game in the sense that there was good physical play in it and to see a good scrap or two is pretty exciting. Nobody left after the first one, did they?

Go find a house. You made the hockey team.

His personality is so big, it was a perfect marriage to New York. He came here and hockey players normally aren't that big and Mark transcended hockey. He was a compelling figure whether you liked sports or whether you liked hockey itself.

He's earned all the ice time he is getting. Guillaume has good size and skates well. He's also a gifted hockey player who brings a lot of intangibles to the game. If there is a fault, it's that he tries too hard. That's only because he wants to be the one who makes the difference every game.

He's definitely a guy I look up to. He leads by example. He's a gifted and talented hockey player.

He's definitely a talented guy. Right now, he's been put in a tough situation. He's shown a lot in his first couple of games but there's so much pressure on our team right now. He's had to step in and play well right away and I think he'd done that. He's got a lot of skill, he's a pretty fast guy and he has a lot of hockey sense.

He's a tremendous hockey mind, and he's been around a long time. I'm sure he's brought a lot to that team.

He's a very intelligent hockey player, No. 1, that's his biggest thing. He made people better around him. He had a terrific competitive edge to him that kept him playing for a long time.

He's just so creative in practice. He's one of the fastest, if not the fastest guy in college hockey. He's just got such a good sense of awareness and hockey sense. You've got to realize that he's young and it's tough coming in as a freshman. Even as good as you are, it's an adjustment. He's really caught on here the last couple of weeks and he's just going to get better as the season goes on.

He's kind of an unsung hero on the hockey club. He just does his job and competes every night. You know what you're going to get when he comes to the rink.

He's got international experience not only as a player, but as a coach. He'll bring quite a bit of knowledge and experience to this hockey club.

He's a rookie, but he's 23 years old. He's had some pro experience, he's played a couple years in Hershey (of the American Hockey League). ... So I think he's a little bit more mature than people think he is.

He's a special hockey player. Early in his career, he looked like this. I don't know what happened in a few of his middle years, but certainly this year, he's found the love of the game again. We stood around and watched him make a lot of plays. We gave him too much respect and too much room.

I find it scandalous. Even a hockey player doesn't get that kind of money sometimes. Compensation should be lined up with results. How can you get compensation if you didn't do the work?

This wasn't our best at all. But, trust me, we've played a lot of good hockey games and not won.

We can expect a much better hockey team. It's very obvious that they want to come in here with a purpose, that they want to make a statement about where they belong, where they should be ranked. You can be sure that after the way we beat them the first time, they're going to be coming for blood.

He made some great saves in the third. He's been playing a lot of hockey for us. We haven't been able to get him as much rest as we'd like to and as much practice as we'd like to ... but he's really learning how to compete. You can see that.

He gets everybody going and ready. He loves to joke around, but when it comes to hockey he's very serious.

He does the little things and he's strong. He's hockey strong.

He is a fierce competitor. He loves to compete. When it comes to hockey he wants to win and his team to do well. He is really passionate about playing the game.

He has rehabbed very well so far and if it continues the way it's going we're anticipating maybe practicing in the next four to five weeks with the team. And then we're probably still two or three months away from him playing. But we're just moving along and we're handling the hockey side of it. So far to date, his rehab has gone very well.

We've been trying to find the answer and sticking with the same guys. But we owe it to ourselves to try something different. We've got a lot of hockey left.

He needs to be a big part of the team as we go into the last quarter of the season. The way he plays, that's the type of hockey we are going to have to play, the battles. If he gets recharged a little bit during the break I think he will be a big part of the club.

He now plays in all situations for us: special teams, matched up against the top lines, late game situations. His strength and conditioning has come a long way, and I think with another important summer, he can become one of the top defensemen in Hockey East.

He made an awful lot of good saves. That's one factor you can't control in a hockey game -- how the guy wearing the pads at the other end is going to play.

He fits into the same category as the rest of our hockey club. We weren't good enough, and he was part of it. He wasn't as sharp as he needs to be, and the team wasn't as sharp as it needs to be.

He got hockey pretty much started in Pittsburgh, and it's still growing. He's done so much for this city.

We took a couple of penalties that we didn't need to take. Hockey is a game of mistakes and in order for us to be successful we just have to limit those.

We took a lot of penalties this weekend which hurt us because it broke up the flow of the game. Against St. Lawrence, we definitely need to limit the number of penalties we take. When we've played 5-on-5 hockey against them, we've been very successful.

We're pretty excited about winning. That's a great hockey team over there. I thought they were flat. It was a bad day for them.

My wife's dad was a tough guy. That's where Cam must get it. He was always fighting as a kid. That's why I got him into hockey when he was 8 or 9.

My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.

I watched the ice hockey and never even glanced at the speed skating.

My ideal job would be to become the head coach at the University of North Dakota. I'd love to be a high school math teacher and coach. I'd like to stay in hockey and help kids try to move on.

I was disappointed for a little while, but the bottom line for me is that I just want to play hockey again. Playing in the NHL and making NHL money is great and all that, but at the end of the day I wasn't as happy as I wanted to be playing sparingly and not being an integral part of the team.

Little bit of mixed feelings because they've been our greatest competition for 15 years and now it's a different final. I think it's the greatest upset in the history of women's hockey today.

Marquette is a very fast and disciplined hockey team and they gave us a lot of trouble. We had a solid game plan, but didn't execute it. Plus, we had 12 minor penalties and you can't survive against a team like Marquette with that many penalties.

Martin St. Louis is the 'heart and soul' of our hockey team.

Martin St. Louis is the heart and soul of our hockey team, ... Dating all the way back to the summer of 2004, there was never a moment when we were not firmly committed as an organization to getting Marty signed long-term.

Mario's exceptional play earned him accolades. His ability to face adversity earned him respect. His devotion to Pittsburgh and the Penguins earned him admiration. His dedication to hockey -- at both the NHL and international levels -- earned him the enduring appreciation and thanks of everyone associated with the game. We celebrate his playing career and wish him the best in the future.

Some guys might not like the deal, but you know what? It's a great deal, ... It's what it should be for the good of the game. I'm a hockey fan, first and foremost, and this will help us grow the game and reach another level.