A nontraditional hockey market is turning into more of a traditional market. We're now a fabric of Nashville.
I'm a big believer that if you can have success in the playoffs, when it means the most and when the game is at its highest pace, it always carries into the next year and it gives a player confidence.
You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.
I have a list of stuff I need to do during the day. I try to do a couple of hours of professional stuff, be it hockey stuff I haven't gotten to the last little while, husband stuff, everything to repairing stuff around the house that I neglected around the winter.
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.
Sometimes when you start playing games you don't get as many practices and you don't get as many touches. People think you have the puck the whole time during a game - you really don't.
As I have evolved as a coach, I was a guy who was all about the game and a person who focused on the wins and losses.
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.
You get mentally fatigued and you get physically fatigued, too. Usually that's when bad things happen on the ice and then you're more at risk for injury.
I became a citizen after 9/11.
There's going to be a point in time when I can go to a NHL game in Nashville with my grandkids. That's really special.
The team that can be consistent - for the most part all year - is going to be the team that is going to get into the playoffs.
Goal scorers are always sniffing things out, but once they realize 'hey, if I don't have the puck I can't score,' then you have to be a part of the solution so you can get it back so you can score.
One of the things I think you're always conscious of is we're in the winning business.
I have that look like I'm going to tear your head off. As a younger guy, I think I had that look even more and had a reputation for being in your face a lot, but as I've gotten older I think I've filtered some of that out.
Every day, I do hockey-related stuff all morning.
That's what they hired me to do in Washington, change a little bit of the culture, try to win a Stanley Cup.
If you have to change some laws, get that done. If it's getting schools, the next generation, to understand love and understanding, let's get that done.
Bobby Orr, I thought he was the greatest player of all time because he was so far ahead of the competition in his prime.
My son and I ride a tandem bike. We turn the music on and just enjoy riding through our neighborhood.
