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

“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.”
-Gordie Howe

 ”I’m not dumb enough to be a goalie.”
-Brett Hull

“I just tape four Tylenols to it.”
-Edmonton’s Boris Mironov, on playing with a sore ankle.

“One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus.”
-Glenn Healy, on his IHL time.

“Part of the learning curve in Edmonton is learning to hate Calgary.”
-Steve Smith.

“As always, I remain hopeful that Don Cherry won’t be offered the same length contract.”
-Broadcaster Ron MacLean, on his four year contract renewal.

“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.”
-Stephen Leacock.

“When we’ve got the puck, they can’t score.”
-Paul Coffey

“This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national symbol as the maple leaf.”
-Lester B. Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada, 1968