Like it, I think the shootouts are OK, but I think they should give three points to a team that wins in regulation, and two for overtime and the shootout. I don't think winning in 60 minutes should be the same as winning a shootout. - Jaromir Jagr
"It's like going from heaven to hell."
"I think I'm old enough to have short hair now. No more of that girl stuff."
"When I'm feeling good, I can do anything on the ice I want"
"My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world."
"Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends, the ones I've had since I was five years old. Sometimes I wish I could bring Czechoslovakia to America. Then I would be the happiest guy in the world."
"I think we have a chance just like everybody else, ... There's no doubt in my mind we're going to have a playoff spot. I don't think it's a rebuilding year. No way."
"I think the whole league has changed, ... There are a lot of guys changing teams. It's going to be a different league than ever before."
"The way I saw it from the outside, there was always pressure on the New York Rangers, for the GM to make moves. It was kind of ... necessary,"
"There was so many good players in one place, ... Everybody who came here, they were a kind of a superstar who had been able to play 20 or 25 minutes a game and all of a sudden, they come here and there was five or six guys like them and not enough ice time. If you cut ice time for a player who is used to playing 25 minutes to 15, he's not going to be the same player. I think it hurts a team."
"Right now, ... there's a chance for everybody else and I don't think it's going to hurt us. I don't think it's a rebuilding, no way. I think we have a chance like everyone else does. There's no doubt in my mind we're going to make the playoffs."
"Sure, he does. So does every other veteran player and the coaching staff."
"Jaromir Jagr, from the Czech Republic, said that beyond the team-building, he had a better understanding of a soldier's life.] It was tough, ... One thing you learn: These guys are fighting for their lives. Hockey is nothing compared to that."
"If they let me shoot, they let me shoot. That's fine with me, ... They covered everybody else. I'll take it any time."
"What fans? ... Somebody forgot to tell them it was a 1 o'clock game."
"The Rangers could spend $80 million before, now they cannot do it, ... Every time they make a move, it's got to be a good move and make sense. Before, because we could spend money here in New York, you had to get somebody to satisfy the fans and sometimes too much is not good. You need a lot of hard-working guys and every superstar needs their ice time to be that superstar. If you've got so many of them, somebody is going to get left behind."
"I don't like teams where the general manager or coaches are separated, ... Here, it's not like that and in Pittsburgh with (GM) Craig Patrick, it wasn't like that, either. Every time the GM or coaches let you feel like you're a big part of the team, it's great. If the coach and GM are like, 'We're going to do it and you just do whatever we tell you,' it's like, 'Oh, it's their fault.' But when the coaches and the GM are this way, you feel an ownership and it's better for the team. You give more."
"I've been playing with Marty for a long time, ... He knows where I'm going to be and I know where to look for him."
"I don't think I've seen a better player shoot the one-timer, ... It was a gift."
"It's New York. It can go the other way, too."
"I got my advantage, other people got their advantage, ... I'm not that quick. But I'm 245 (pounds) and I'm not going to get tired that quick. I might not be good in the first, but I think I'm going to be good in the third."
"I'm happy for him - the way he's playing, he truly deserves it,"
"I'm glad we had the year off. They forget. And this is a new team. They appreciate, I think, the way we play. And we appreciate them. If we're going to do something this season, we need the fans. When you see they're excited, there's nothing better."
"It probably happened in the last shift of overtime and I didn't know about it, ... All you need is a little bit of a slash and they can break. ... That's the way it goes. I was lucky on my goal and unlucky on the penalty shot."
"It was a great game,"
"To me, it was fast, too. But that's the way it's going to be. I think it's going to be even faster when the players get into shape. Don't forget they didn't play for a year. So heads up."
"It wasn't a good start for us, for sure, ... The whole game, we had to chase it. The only good thing being down 3-0 was that we had 55 minutes left to try to get at least a point."
"There's a big chance I might be going to Moscow,"
"Yeah. It might be the best league in the world besides the NHL."
"It's very likely that the World Cup will become the last tournament on the national team for me."
"It wasn't a good game for us, ... We were kind of flat, maybe we were overconfident. We scored a goal and we were excited and then they scored their second one. That's what killed us."
"I just wanted to help him, ... He doesn't make that much money. I can help."
"He stole my goal, ... I'm going to kick him out of the apartment."
"Well, there were no people there. I would be skating by myself."
"Some people picked us for last in the NHL, ... I think they're very wrong."
"The biggest thing, he's not afraid, he's not scared, ... I don't think he's nervous when he goes to the penalty shot. I don't think he feels the pressure."
"We had some chances, but we didn't play well, ... We couldn't play the way we wanted to."
"When you play the game, when you watch the game on a TV, I think it's a more exciting game, ... It's more skating, up-and-down hockey. For offensive players, you can get more scoring chances and shots. Plus, the offensive zone is a lot bigger and it is better on power plays."
"I'm not the first guy they booed and I won't be the last, ... It makes me feel a lot better when I score a goal and we win the game."
"It used to be much worse, ... It's been four years, but it is more special because we're playing a very good team tonight. It's not so much that it came against Pittsburgh, but it's more about how we're playing as a team."
"I always had more assists than goals, ... It's just this year I look like a goal scorer."
"You have to have guts to do that move, ... In front of 20,000 people watching you, it's not that easy to do."