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" I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically. "

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" I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals. "

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" I don't see the Hurricanes relocating, period. I think the Triangle is a terrific market. "

" When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story of excellent in professional sports. "

" Market size, particularly when you're dealing with major media markets, has an impact in terms of gathering attention. "

" We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players. "

" I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple. "

" Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring. "

" Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable. "

" If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living. "

" My rooting interest these days is first and foremost competitive hockey, and secondly in officials not making a mistake. "

" The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod. "

" There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events. "

" I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game. "

" There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt. "

" There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right. "

" It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans. "

" I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does. "

" I view myself as a dealmaker. "

" I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market. "

" While players say they like the five-day break, they're also saying they don't like the compression that goes along with it, and that's something that is of great concern to us as well. "

" I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also? "

" While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena. "

" I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas? "

" The Steelers run a great organization. "

" Fighting is one of those things that gets tons of attention, far more than it deserves. "

" If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season. "

" On the issue of behavioral health and the like, the program we have in place has always been available to former players as well. "

" In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done. "