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" We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation. "

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" The good news for us is the NHL has never been stronger, never been more popular, and that, I guess, has led to a lot of interest being expressed from a number of places, an interest in getting an expansion team, and Las Vegas happens to be one of those places. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We are not giving up on the Coyotes in the Greater Phoenix Area... The team has got a number of options and is going to pursue them, so nobody should think that team is moving other than out of Glendale. "

" The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown. "

" It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad. "

" If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible. "

" We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job. "

" I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life. "

" The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation. "

" You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda. "

" I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age. "

" There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it. "

" I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game. "

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

" Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic. "

" To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play. "

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

" 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? "

" We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game. "

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

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

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

" We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series. "

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

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

" I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext. "

" What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable. "

" We don't want our players getting hurt. "

" 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. "