“Hopefully when I make it to 80, I can go to a hockey game and watch th...” — Barry Trotz Quote

Hopefully when I make it to 80, I can go to a hockey game and watch the Predators and Capitals play with my grandkids. That's probably my legacy on the hockey side.

When you get everybody going in the right direction you can do some great things, and that's in any business.

For my size, I think I played bigger than my size. I tried to play bigger, which is probably why I got as injured as I did.

In today's sport, coaches are in a partnership with their top players.

Every player is wired differently. Some players you know exactly where they're headed, where they're going and what they're thinking. There are other guys wired differently. It allowed me to understand the personality of Alexander Ovechkin.

I was a kid in New Jersey. Watched the Flyers. Loved hockey. Always at the rink.

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.

Recently, my dad has been teaching me a lot - like how to read a script. It used to just be about hockey or baseball or sports of whatever. We don't have glitzy or glamour-y Hollywood-type talk, like, 'Isn't that person great?' It's more about the process of how it works.