- GOALIES -

"I always tell Bobby he was up in the air for so long that I had time to shower and change before
he hit the ice."
-St. Louis goalie Glenn Hall, victimized by Bobby Orr's
famous "flying" goal to win the Stanley Cup in 1970.
 

"What everyone says is pretty irrelevant."
-Detroit goalie Chris Osgood
 

"Goaltending is a normal job. Sure! How would you like it in your job if every time you
made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and fifteen thousand people
stood up and yelled at you."
-Hall of Fame goaltender Jacques Plante.
 

"My face is my mask."
-Hall of Fame goaltender Lorne "Gump" Worsley
when asked why he never wore face protection in
twenty-one as an NHL goaltender.
 

"Every time a puck gets past me and I look back in my net, I say 'Oh, oh' "
-Hall of Fame goaltender Bernie Parent, asked
to explain why he wore No. 00 in the WHA.

- OTHER -
 

"When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes
and they'll be going around in circles."
-Former Rangers defensmen Barry Beck
of Mark Messier.
 

"I'd take five Milt Schmidts, put my grandmother in the nets and we'd
beat any team."
-Former referee Red Storey on the
Boston Great
 

"The place was cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed
baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck."
-Former Major League Baseball player Andre
Dawson on Montreal
 

"If you play well and win your a heck of a leader; you don't win your an okay leader,
and if you don't play well and you don't win your a lousy leader."
-Steve Yzerman being a leader - 1999.
 

"It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after
Toronto's second touchdown."
-Detroit's Alex Delvecchio after the Leafs
hammered the Red Wings, 13-0, in 1971
 

"He left his jockstrap hangin' on the clock."
-Detroit's Mickey Redmond
 

"I have never seen a finer captain."
-Detroit Red Wing Chris Chelios
of Steve Yzerman
 

"There aint no party like a Detroit party cuz a Detroit
party never stops."
-Former Red Wing goalie
Kevin Hodson

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