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Red Wings Quotes - Past and Present

Winning...

  • "Everything I've always done is team oriented and it's going to continue to be that way, but to be singled out as the Selke winner is really special."
    Kris Draper; June 10, 2004

  • "They started out 22-3-1-1. I mean, they couldn't lose. They did everything right, it was an unbelievable start."
    Free Press writer Nicholas J. Cotsonika on the Wings great start to the 2001-2002 season; 2002

  • "Lidstrom carries to center, long shot scores! From center ice! There's the break the Red Wings needed!"
    Commentator Ken Daniels, calling Nicklas Lidstrom's goal in Game 3 against Vancouver; April 21, 2002

  • "Stevie Yzerman, sing Happy Birthday, here's your gift."
    ESPN commentator Gary Thorne, after Brent Johnson gave Yzerman the puck and an empty net to shoot at; May 9, 2002

  • "...Rob Blake just saved a goal...off the point, Lidstrom shot; Yzerman knocked it down. And a great save... the goal counts!
    The goal counts! The goal counts! Patrick Roy thought he had it in the glove, he went to hold it up, it fell down behind him and went in!"
    ESPN commentator Gary Thorne's call on the "Statue of Liberty" play by Patrick Roy and the goal by Brendan Shanahan; May 29, 2002

  • That game is one of the games I'll never forget."
    Defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom, remembering the 7-0 Game 7 victory in Detroit against Colorado; 2002

  • "With 5:13 left in the third overtime, his second goal of the game, the oldest player in the league ends the longest Finals game in a long, long time."
    Commentator Dave Strader's call on Igor Larionov's triple overtime winner; June 8, 2002

  • "I jumped on the bench like a kid, I was jumping up and down, it was just the most amazing feeling I've ever had."
    Defenseman Steve Duchesne remembers the final moments of the 2002 Stanley Cup Final; 2002

  • "Take a picture! My liney!"
    First-time champion Luc Robitaille to photographers, posing with Tomas Holmstrom; June 13, 2002

  • The greatest feeling was seeing Vladdie with the Cup on the ice. It's great to be associated with classy guys and a classy organization"
    1998 Stanley Cup Champion Kris Draper; 1998

  • We showed this year again we are world-class champions"
    1998 Stanley Cup Champion Martin Lapointe; 1998


    ...Losing...

  • "We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us.
    After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run."
    Captain Steve Yzerman discussing the team's four-game loss to Anaheim; 2003

  • "Towards the end of the season, we didn't play well at all. We were losing, and you know I was concerned."
    Goaltender Dominik Hasek on the Wings poor 10-game stretch to end the 2001-2002 regular season; 2002

  • "It's [Chris Chelios's] own fault for getting hit. It wouldn't have been bailing out. It would have been smart. Why would you want to get hit?
    It doesn't take any brains to get hit by a 245-pound guy."
    Brett Hull commenting on a hit by Todd Bertuzzi; April 23, 2002

  • "Next thing you know, it's April and you're not playing hockey, I mean that is the weirdest feeling there is, especially for our team."
    Grinder Darren McCarty reflecting on the 2001 playoff loss to Los Angeles

  • "I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks."
    Forward Brendan Shanahan, after failing to score on Toronto's Curtis Joseph in a game; Unknown Date


    ... and Playing the Game

  • "Going back to Salt Lake in 2002, we started out difficult... difficultly? Hugely? What's the opposite of hugely?"
    Steve Yzerman discussing World Cup and Olympic hockey; September 4, 2004

  • "At the moment I can only confirm that I won't be in Detroit next season."
    Former Red Wing goaltender Dominik Hasek; June 17, 2004

  • "I'm excited about the opportunity to continue to work with this team, and improve it."
    Head coach Dave Lewis after recieving a contract extention offer; June 3, 2004

  • "I said, `What can you do on the bench?' Should I be happy on the bench? Sometimes you have to explain things."
    Sergei Fedorov on leaving Detroit; 2003

  • "[NHLPA President] Bob Goodenow will kill me, but if we're going to be realistic about things probably 75 per cent of the league is overpaid.
    Brett Hull; 2003

  • Everyone expected us to win the Cup. Simple as that."
    2002 Stanley Cup Champion Steve Duchesne; 2002

  • "We've known since the beginning that if we lose in the seventh game in the third overtime, it was a bad year."
    Left Wing Luc Robitaille on the Wings expectations; 2002

  • "Why does one guy hit the post, why does one guy hit a skate, tick off a guy's stick, and somebody else banks it three, four times
    off four guys in front and it goes in? Why does that happen? Well, it's hockey."
    Forward Darren McCarty; 2002

  • "There's one thing you can't defend against, and that is courage. Steve Yzerman just keeps laying it on the line every shift."
    ESPN analyst Bill Clement; 2002

  • "We're going into the third overtime... and it [the clock] said period 2, so I was thinking, isn't it the third overtime, or is it the second overtime?
    So you don't know, you're pretty tired."
    Tomas Holmstrom, recalling Game 3 of the 2002 Stanley Cup Final; 2002

  • "Youth and enthusiasm will take you only so far, I said to Iggy [Igor Larionov] after the game, I'd rather be old and smart than young and dumb anyday."
    Brett Hull in a press conference after Game 3 of the 2002 Stanley Cup Final; June 8, 2002

  • "There were times I wanted to hug him and give him a kiss, and times I wanted to strangle him. But I will never forget what he did for me."
    Defenseman Steve Duchesne on Scotty Bowman retiring; 2002

  • "[Chris] Chelios and [Wendel] Clark are good players, but they are not 25 anymore. They are not going to throw that team on their backs and carry them."
    Dallas Stars player Dave Reid on the Wings multiple trade deadline deals; 1999

  • "You try to squeeze a little more Charmin in the pads when you face him."
    Former Wings goalie Kevin Hodson on Al MacInnis; Unknown Date

  • "Man that guy is ripped! I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it."
    Former Wing Shawn Burr after meeting Eric Lindros; Unknown Date

  • "I'd trade Larry Murphy for a shaved monkey who could skate and a bucket of pucks."
    Unknown Toronto Maple Leafs fan; Unknown Date (Murphy went on to win two Stanley Cups with Detroit.)

  • "I don't know if I find Brett Hull funny. But I can tell you this: He sure thinks he is."
    Former teammate Craig Ludwig; Unknown Date



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