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Reporter: You told me your wife had a major influence when you called her this morning. You didn't believe the reaction she had would be the one that you got. Could you share with us what she said to you this morning?
Kenny: "Absolutely. Like I said, when I called Liz Riley, I thought I would hear a different reaction. When she said her reaction was a great move, because she felt it was going to ultimately make me happy. It wasn't about being in the Metro Boston area. It wasn't about playing alongside Rick Baker, who she believes is a great hockey player, because she loves the game. But she felt it was going to make me happy.
When I heard that from Liz Riley, it was like it was the relief that I was looking for throughout this whole process."
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Classic Hockey Quotes
Hockey players deliver some of the best lines of any athletes. Figured you'd guys enjoy some of these:
"All my friends back home fight on the street, and all they get is arrested." - Predator Patrick Cote, on his $375,000 salary earned as a fighter.
"It's going to be nice to be embarrassed in practice instead of games." - Panther Rhett Warrener, on having Pavel Bure become a teammate.
"I knew I was in trouble when I heard snap, crackle, and pop, and I wasn't having a bowl of cereal." - Maple Leaf Nick Kypreos, after suffering a spiral ankle fracture in a fight.
"I just tape four Tylenols to it." - Oiler Boris Mironov, on playing with a sore ankle.
"I was kind of hoping it would straighten it out. One of these times it will." - Flyer Rod Brind'Amour, after suffering his fourth broken nose.
"The only way we could have, was to have shot him before the game started." - Calgary Flames coach, Brian Sutter, on how his team could have stopped Jaromir Jagr
"We only speak two languages here: English and profanity." - Penguins coach Kevin Constantine, on the many native languages spoken by his team.
"He's one of those guys whose Engish gets worse every year. But as long as it doesn't affect his play, we're all right." - Maple Leaf Wade Belak, on Czech teammate Tomas Kaberle's thick accent.
"I don't order fries with my club sandwich." - Mario Lemieux to teammate Ron Francis, who asked him what he did to stay in shape in the offseason.
"I told her they must be all sold out." - Maple Leaf, Wade Belak, on his response when his mother said she couldn't find his sweater for sale at the Air Canada Centre's souvenir shop.
"I won't miss him. Maybe the West Edmonton Mall will miss him, but not me." - Oilers GM Glen Sather, on leaving highly paid underachiever Andrei Kovalenko exposed in the expansion draft.
"Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying." - Canuck Brendan Morrison, on teammate Todd Bertuzzi
"It's the first time that I can recall a bench minor penalty that really fit the crime." - Devil Martin Brodeur, after New Jersey coach Robbie Ftorek threw a bench in anger about a penalty call.
"It's too bad it wasn't a brick." - Sabres coach Jim Schoenfeld, after tossing a water bottle at referee Terry Gregson.
"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body." - Canadien Saku Koivu to reporters
"Getting cut in the face is a pain in the butt." - Calgary Flame Theo Fleury
"We have only one person to blame, and that's each other." - Ranger Barry Beck, after a loss.
"Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing Chara and said, 'That's why I'm quitting'" - Ranger coach John Muckler, laughing about Wayne Gretzky's comment on Ottawa's six foot nine defenseman Zdeno Chara.
"It's going to be good to be on his side. I'll save a lot of energy. I don't have to concentrate on whacking him. I'm pretty excited about that." - Blackhawk Doug Gilmour, on joining ex-rival Chris Chelios in Chicago
"First time I've ever been this close to one without it being broken over my head." - Red Wing Darren McCarty, after Blackhawk Chris Chelios got traded to Detroit, as he strolled over to the stick rack and grabbed one of Chelios's sticks.
"Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings." - Panther John Vanbiesbrouck, asked if he enjoyed facing 51 shots in a game.
"Daneyko got mad when Kaminski said he was going to knock his teeth out. Dano only has two teeth left, so you can't say that to Dano." - Devils coach Jacques Lemaire, on a fight between Ken Daneyko and Capital Kevin Kaminski.
"Every time I get injured, my wife ends up pregnant." - Blackhaw Doug Wilson, on time spent at home while on injured reserve
"He has a great body for a hockey player, too. I don't want this to come out wrong, but he has a great rear end." - Whalers coach Paul Holmgren, on Andrei Nikolishin.
"I just wanted to see if it was legal, because when he was with us he couldn't catch a thing." - Red Wing coach Scotty Bowman, claiming he called the equipment company to find the specs of Oilers goaltender Bob Essensa's glove after he made 40 saves in a game versus Detroit.
"I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you." - Oiler Wayne Gretzky
"The top three worst things I've seen in hockey? The invention of the trap. The invention of the morning skate. And the invention of the extremely ugly uniform." - Red Wing Brett Hull
"Really, there are none. We traded him for a 10th round pick in a nine-round draft." - Flyers GM Bobby Clarke, on what "future considerations" he received from the Nashville Predators for Sergei Klimentiev
"He's skating like he's 36 again." - Dallas Star Mike Keane, after 38 year old teammate Guy Carbonneau had a great game.
"He's as old as some trees." - Maple Leafe coach Pat Burns on veteran Maple Leaf Mike Gartner
"The kid looks good in his first game." - Whaler Gordie Howe, at age 51, after 41 year old Bobby Hull made his 1979 Hartford Whaler debut.
"Luc Robitaille is a great kid and a good player, but ask anybody on the street and they'd probably think Luc Robitaille is a type of salad dressing." - Kings owner Bruce McNall, on why he had to bring Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles in 1988.
�€Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.�€ - Chico Resch
"Sean Avery is liked about as much as a rattle snake at a picnic." - A commentator on Sean Avery
"Sean Avery's got more tongue than a lumberjacks boot." - A commentator commenting on Sean Avery's outspokenness
"My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.�€ - Bobby Hull commenting on his divorce
"Goaltenders are 3 sandwiches shy of a picnic. From the moment primitive man lurched erect, he survived on the principle that when something hard and potentially lethal comes toward you at great velocity, get the hell out of it's path.�€ - Jim Taylor
�€He had better get married soon, because he's getting uglier every day.�€ - Mark Recchi on Mike Ricci
"I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie." - Brett Hull
"Some guys play hockey. Gretzky plays 40mph chess.�€ - Lowell Cohn
"We've made a final offer. We hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.�€ - Mike Milbury on the holdout of Ziggy Palffy
"By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series." - Anouncer, Steve Rushin
"There have been more cheap shots in this game than a Mexican cantina during happy hour." - Rick Jeanneret, during round 1 of the 2001 playoffs
"Pominville is going to have to open a planned parenthood center!" - Rick Jeanneret, after Jason Pominville scored two goals in quick succession
"They're like two bulldogs eating lunch off a Brillo pad!" - Mike Robitaille, about Paul Gaustad and Chris Drury
"How would you know Sean? When I was playing you were in your 3rd year of 8th grade?" - Brian Hayward on comments Sean Avery made about his playing days
"I'm just glad it wasn't machete night" - Ranger Bob Froese after fans threw mugs on the ice during mug night
Reporter to Brett Hull: "If you were a tree, what kind of a tree would you be?"
Hull: "Shoe"
"Why is a puck called a puck? Because dirty little bastard was taken."- New Jersey Devils Goaltender Martin Brodeur
"Now we've got men 6'1' who look small. Now a guy like Marty McSorley doesn't even standout on the ice, except for his beautiful blond hair." - LA Kings Head Coach Barry Melrose describing his 1994-95 team
"I would be sitting there, thinking about Keenan and how I wanted to kill him...and in my mind, I'd be cutting his eyes out with my stick." - Brett Hull on former Blues coach Mike Keenan
"He just got me in the right spot. In the small of the back. A good, clean, dirty hit...not that I didn't deserve it." - Chris Chelios after taking a hit from Calgary Flames defensemen Glen Featherstone
"Ever since he's been a little boo-aw." - Mark Crawford's response to how long Patrick Roy had been pronouncing his name Roo-aw.
After a pregame warmups scuffle in the 1999 Playofs broke out between New Jersey Devil Lyle Odelein and Matthew Barnaby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Barnaby had this to say about Odelein: "Cornelius as we like to call him gets under your skin. Planet of the Apes. Look at him. Seriously. He looks like Cornelious." Odelein responded by saying: "He should take a look at his wife. She's god-awful to look at."
"If you take your eye off Gretzky, he'll bank it off your skate, your back, your helmet or your wife. I could hang a nickel in the net and he'd hit it every time." - Floyd Whitney
"Gretzky knows it time to retire now, he's finally slow enough to get hit by Luke Richardson." - Les Bowen, Philly News columnist
"All my friends back home fight on the street, and all they get is arrested." - Predator Patrick Cote, on his $375,000 salary earned as a fighter.
"It's going to be nice to be embarrassed in practice instead of games." - Panther Rhett Warrener, on having Pavel Bure become a teammate.
"I knew I was in trouble when I heard snap, crackle, and pop, and I wasn't having a bowl of cereal." - Maple Leaf Nick Kypreos, after suffering a spiral ankle fracture in a fight.
"I just tape four Tylenols to it." - Oiler Boris Mironov, on playing with a sore ankle.
"I was kind of hoping it would straighten it out. One of these times it will." - Flyer Rod Brind'Amour, after suffering his fourth broken nose.
"The only way we could have, was to have shot him before the game started." - Calgary Flames coach, Brian Sutter, on how his team could have stopped Jaromir Jagr
"We only speak two languages here: English and profanity." - Penguins coach Kevin Constantine, on the many native languages spoken by his team.
"He's one of those guys whose Engish gets worse every year. But as long as it doesn't affect his play, we're all right." - Maple Leaf Wade Belak, on Czech teammate Tomas Kaberle's thick accent.
"I don't order fries with my club sandwich." - Mario Lemieux to teammate Ron Francis, who asked him what he did to stay in shape in the offseason.
"I told her they must be all sold out." - Maple Leaf, Wade Belak, on his response when his mother said she couldn't find his sweater for sale at the Air Canada Centre's souvenir shop.
"I won't miss him. Maybe the West Edmonton Mall will miss him, but not me." - Oilers GM Glen Sather, on leaving highly paid underachiever Andrei Kovalenko exposed in the expansion draft.
"Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying." - Canuck Brendan Morrison, on teammate Todd Bertuzzi
"It's the first time that I can recall a bench minor penalty that really fit the crime." - Devil Martin Brodeur, after New Jersey coach Robbie Ftorek threw a bench in anger about a penalty call.
"It's too bad it wasn't a brick." - Sabres coach Jim Schoenfeld, after tossing a water bottle at referee Terry Gregson.
"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body." - Canadien Saku Koivu to reporters
"Getting cut in the face is a pain in the butt." - Calgary Flame Theo Fleury
"We have only one person to blame, and that's each other." - Ranger Barry Beck, after a loss.
"Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing Chara and said, 'That's why I'm quitting'" - Ranger coach John Muckler, laughing about Wayne Gretzky's comment on Ottawa's six foot nine defenseman Zdeno Chara.
"It's going to be good to be on his side. I'll save a lot of energy. I don't have to concentrate on whacking him. I'm pretty excited about that." - Blackhawk Doug Gilmour, on joining ex-rival Chris Chelios in Chicago
"First time I've ever been this close to one without it being broken over my head." - Red Wing Darren McCarty, after Blackhawk Chris Chelios got traded to Detroit, as he strolled over to the stick rack and grabbed one of Chelios's sticks.
"Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings." - Panther John Vanbiesbrouck, asked if he enjoyed facing 51 shots in a game.
"Daneyko got mad when Kaminski said he was going to knock his teeth out. Dano only has two teeth left, so you can't say that to Dano." - Devils coach Jacques Lemaire, on a fight between Ken Daneyko and Capital Kevin Kaminski.
"Every time I get injured, my wife ends up pregnant." - Blackhaw Doug Wilson, on time spent at home while on injured reserve
"He has a great body for a hockey player, too. I don't want this to come out wrong, but he has a great rear end." - Whalers coach Paul Holmgren, on Andrei Nikolishin.
"I just wanted to see if it was legal, because when he was with us he couldn't catch a thing." - Red Wing coach Scotty Bowman, claiming he called the equipment company to find the specs of Oilers goaltender Bob Essensa's glove after he made 40 saves in a game versus Detroit.
"I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you." - Oiler Wayne Gretzky
"The top three worst things I've seen in hockey? The invention of the trap. The invention of the morning skate. And the invention of the extremely ugly uniform." - Red Wing Brett Hull
"Really, there are none. We traded him for a 10th round pick in a nine-round draft." - Flyers GM Bobby Clarke, on what "future considerations" he received from the Nashville Predators for Sergei Klimentiev
"He's skating like he's 36 again." - Dallas Star Mike Keane, after 38 year old teammate Guy Carbonneau had a great game.
"He's as old as some trees." - Maple Leafe coach Pat Burns on veteran Maple Leaf Mike Gartner
"The kid looks good in his first game." - Whaler Gordie Howe, at age 51, after 41 year old Bobby Hull made his 1979 Hartford Whaler debut.
"Luc Robitaille is a great kid and a good player, but ask anybody on the street and they'd probably think Luc Robitaille is a type of salad dressing." - Kings owner Bruce McNall, on why he had to bring Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles in 1988.
�€Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.�€ - Chico Resch
"Sean Avery is liked about as much as a rattle snake at a picnic." - A commentator on Sean Avery
"Sean Avery's got more tongue than a lumberjacks boot." - A commentator commenting on Sean Avery's outspokenness
"My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.�€ - Bobby Hull commenting on his divorce
"Goaltenders are 3 sandwiches shy of a picnic. From the moment primitive man lurched erect, he survived on the principle that when something hard and potentially lethal comes toward you at great velocity, get the hell out of it's path.�€ - Jim Taylor
�€He had better get married soon, because he's getting uglier every day.�€ - Mark Recchi on Mike Ricci
"I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie." - Brett Hull
"Some guys play hockey. Gretzky plays 40mph chess.�€ - Lowell Cohn
"We've made a final offer. We hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.�€ - Mike Milbury on the holdout of Ziggy Palffy
"By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series." - Anouncer, Steve Rushin
"There have been more cheap shots in this game than a Mexican cantina during happy hour." - Rick Jeanneret, during round 1 of the 2001 playoffs
"Pominville is going to have to open a planned parenthood center!" - Rick Jeanneret, after Jason Pominville scored two goals in quick succession
"They're like two bulldogs eating lunch off a Brillo pad!" - Mike Robitaille, about Paul Gaustad and Chris Drury
"How would you know Sean? When I was playing you were in your 3rd year of 8th grade?" - Brian Hayward on comments Sean Avery made about his playing days
"I'm just glad it wasn't machete night" - Ranger Bob Froese after fans threw mugs on the ice during mug night
Reporter to Brett Hull: "If you were a tree, what kind of a tree would you be?"
Hull: "Shoe"
"Why is a puck called a puck? Because dirty little bastard was taken."- New Jersey Devils Goaltender Martin Brodeur
"Now we've got men 6'1' who look small. Now a guy like Marty McSorley doesn't even standout on the ice, except for his beautiful blond hair." - LA Kings Head Coach Barry Melrose describing his 1994-95 team
"I would be sitting there, thinking about Keenan and how I wanted to kill him...and in my mind, I'd be cutting his eyes out with my stick." - Brett Hull on former Blues coach Mike Keenan
"He just got me in the right spot. In the small of the back. A good, clean, dirty hit...not that I didn't deserve it." - Chris Chelios after taking a hit from Calgary Flames defensemen Glen Featherstone
"Ever since he's been a little boo-aw." - Mark Crawford's response to how long Patrick Roy had been pronouncing his name Roo-aw.
After a pregame warmups scuffle in the 1999 Playofs broke out between New Jersey Devil Lyle Odelein and Matthew Barnaby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Barnaby had this to say about Odelein: "Cornelius as we like to call him gets under your skin. Planet of the Apes. Look at him. Seriously. He looks like Cornelious." Odelein responded by saying: "He should take a look at his wife. She's god-awful to look at."
"If you take your eye off Gretzky, he'll bank it off your skate, your back, your helmet or your wife. I could hang a nickel in the net and he'd hit it every time." - Floyd Whitney
"Gretzky knows it time to retire now, he's finally slow enough to get hit by Luke Richardson." - Les Bowen, Philly News columnist
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