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- Nov 07, 2020
I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.
- Captain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.
- Captain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn't anything - I didn't do anything or I didn't feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.
- Neutral
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
- Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020