I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.
I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.
We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow fighting. We're stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences, or take the next step and eliminate fighting.
When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.
I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.
Whether somebody is really competent - whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he's a good person to lead a hockey club - is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.
When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.
And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.
Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.
I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.
I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.
I wore No. 19 because of Bryan Trottier. I liked the overall aspect of his game. I liked the way he conducted himself on the ice. He was a quiet guy. He played really hard; just a good all-around, prototypical center man who could do everything.
It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.
We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.
We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.
There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.
The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.
