Posts About "Hockey Quotes"
Quotes of the Week: Lockout Nastiness 2003-2005
September 20th, 2012 The following lengthy quotations come largely from editorials written by the media back around the time of the last lockout, with quotations from some owners and a few former players thrown in. The players enjoyed very little support back then, and what support they did have dwindled as time went on. Despite the age on these quotes,...
Quotes of the Week: Negotiations
September 10th, 2012 This week's quotes of the week are a loose confederation of negotiation-related quotations, which sounds far more boring than it really is. Four quotes come from a still-relevant editorial written by sportswriter Jack McCallum in 1994 for Sports Illustrated; if a keener, more eagle-eyed indictment of the owners has been written, I have...
Quotes of the Week: Legendary Coaches
August 20th, 2012 This week's quotes of the week are by and about the most idiosyncratic bunch in all of hockey, the coaches. You're only as good as your coach wants you to be. Bob Probert You give punishment and you take it. Fred Shero To win in hockey, you need the glamour boys to get down and dirty. Ken Hitchcock We're losing at...
Quotes of the Week: Contemporary Writers (I)
August 5th, 2012 This week's quotes come from contemporary writers working today and whose work was published within the last few years. Hockey fights are like love - sometimes they can happen in a glance. Harrison Mooney The modern NHL was built on the Wow of the slap shot ... Bobby Hull spooking maskless goalies with swerving pucks that...
Quotes of the Week: Sheroisms
July 30th, 2012 This week's Quotes of the Week looks at some of the many so-called Sheroisms--pithy quotes from former Philadelphia Flyers coach Fred Shero. Shero was famous--not only for his dark sunglasses or for his nickname, 'The Fog', but also for writing quotes on a chalkboard to inspire his team. Some, he took out of quotation collections, others...
