Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 7)

The hockey lockout of 1994-1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering… and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!

(1963 – ) television host & comedian

Basketball players get the girls, hockey players take them home.

Two people fighting is not violence in hockey. It might be in tennis or bowling, but it's not in hockey.

Canadian hockey goalie & coach

I'd take five [former player] Milt Schmidts, put my grandmother in the nets and we'd beat any team.

Former NHL referee

Better teams win more often than the teams that are not so good.

professional hockey coach

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. 

Canadian hockey player

I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

professional hockey player

That puck would have gone in the net if not for the goalie.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer

If officials called every penalty they saw, there would be no players on the ice and no one in the rink.

professional hockey referee

Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

Canadian hockey goalie & coach

They can say what they want, but playoff hockey is a whole other ballgame.

I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK, because I don't like their games.

Canadian hockey coach, general manager & commentator

One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus.

Canadian hockey player

Hockey is figure skating in a war zone

Kerry, don’t sell yourself short. You’ve made far worse calls than that.

hockey broadcaster

I grabbed it and squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in.

Canadian hockey player

If he had another hair on his back, he'd be up a tree.

Canadian hockey player

Anytime you hold Dallas to a one touchdown, it's not all bad.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

It must be the body. It’s chiseled out of marshmallows.

American hockey player

I slept like a baby. Every two hours I woke up and cried.

Canadian hockey coach

Hmm, 600 games? What does it mean? It means I’m that much closer to getting fired.

Canadian hockey player & coach