"Please boys. No cameras. I look so bad. Please"--Danny Markov to the cameramen wanting an interview after Game 6 when he took a puck off the forehead.
"I told them, he no win. They no win."--Markov about what he said to the Sens after he took the puck off the noggen.
"He blocked a shot with his face, and then he comes back and makes the play he does."--Darcy Tucker about Markov.
"Sometimes, when we get going back and forth, he tells me I need a whole lot of shut-up."--Tucker about his arguments with Markov.
"Everyone has to pick it up with the rash of injuries we've had. When you lose guys like Nik, Bryan Berard, and Yanic Perreault, you don't have a choice. We miss those guys, but we still have a job to do."--Kevyn Adams on injuries.
"I don't think I should be suspended. I lost my balance and fell on (referee Mick McGeough). I wouldn't want him falling on me. It was quite comical."--Curtis Joseph on his temper tantrum
"I'm not frustrated at anyone but myself. I like to play a certain way, and I just seem to be half a step from my grasp."--Alyn McCauley
"I just want to become a player who is reconizable and exciting to watch. Someone who can carry the puck offensively, but also be solid defensively so I don't hurt my team."--Bryan Berard (I'm praying that you can become that player Bryanator!)
"I have a good feeling about our team...hopefully, that means we will go all the way."--Sergei Berezin (Amen to that)
"Because of my size, I'm not the most talented guy, I'm a good passer but I'm not a great skater and I don't have a hard shot. But I do all the little things well."--Darcy Tucker
"She's got a boyfriend, you know...Yanic Perreault's son Jeremy..."--Garry Valk of his two-year-old daughter Allisandra
"It was for a week in December and it was -40 Celsius. Oh my God, it was so cold. We couldn't even go outside. The people were nice, but it was pretty cold out there."--Sergei Berezin on his first trip to Canada
"He's got a mouth on him. Everyone knows how he is. I think he was scared of me a bit."--Berard about Matthew Barnaby
"Hey Healy, shut that crap off!"--Tie Domi
"He knows I'll break that CD player if he keeps playing that stuff."--Domi commenting on Glenn Healy's music
"Another free trip with the Leafs! Another free trip with the Leafs!"--Tie Domi
"Amazing. All that for hitting the post. He is a real legend around here."--Curtis Joseph about the crowd's two minnute standing ovation when Clark hit the post.
"It's always exciting to play in overtime. It's just so nice to win."--Sergei Berezin
"It feels good to breathe again."--Cujo after a spectacular performance in Game 5 of the Quarter-finals.
"He's got a neat design on his pads."--Cujo about Martin Brodeur
"He was the guy who brought hockey to our household. He played with desire, so much desire that sometimes it stopped him from playing. You have to respect that."--Darcy Tucker about Wendel Clark.
"You can talk about Cujo after every game he plays. He's the best in the world."--Tie Domi on Cujo
"I haven't stopped shaking since the regular season."--Darcy Tucker (It's probably that Cola/Coffee combo he drinks!)
"I just told the guy, 'Hey, if you're going to talk publicly like that, then back it up.'"--Tie Domi
"You'd swear he has 14 Stanley Cups with the number of superstitions he has. He has it all. He should write a book after and send it to one of the loonie bins!"--Glenn Healy on Darcy Tucker
"What can you say? It's nice when you can screw yourself like that and still get two points."--Gerald Diduck on the 6-5 OT victory vs Canucks
"He's a clown out there, he really is."--Tie Domi on Matthew Barna-baby
"I'm just worried I'm going to fall or something during the intros!"--Cujo about the All-Star game at ACC
"It's going to be a busy (1st period) for me. To look across and see Mats standing between Jagr and Teemu...Ouch."--Cujo
"I know I'm more comfortable with him in the line up. There's no cheap shots or pushes from behind when he's around, because Tie will react."--Sergei Berezin on Tie Domi
"I don't think there are too many fans of Ottawa in this dressing room."--Yanic Perreault
"I am having the kick of my life."--Darcy Tucker on playing in the playoffs
"It hurts me to think of how many Wayne Gretzky rookie cards I pinned to the spokes of my bike to make the flapping sound."--Garry Valk (All together now....YOU DORK!) hehehe
"I take the GO train every day, I shouldn't get hit by one!"--Healy after getting run over by Jason Wiemer of the Flames
"This hurts like hell."--Kris King on being sent on waivers. (awww....) :(
"I wanted to look like a European player so I could adopt their stickhandling abilities."--Kris King on wearing a visor
"That was my nickname there--the Russian Tank."--Dmitry Yushkevich referring to Philidalphia
"The only time I really get mad at him is when he doesn't shoot. When you can shoot like he does, why pass? But then he'll do something completely unselfish and surprise you. In game 2, he took a big hit so he could pass the puck to me so I'd get the empty net goal. He didn't have to do that. But that's Sergei."--Garry Valk on Sergei Berezin in 98/99 playoffs
"That's nice. Now you can just throw it all out the window."--Darcy Tucker to the media when reminded of the Leafs' stellar play vs Devils in the regular season
"Sergei, I thought, had his best game ever for us. That first goal, you don't see those anymore in the NHL."--Mats Sundin on Berezin's BEAUTIFUL end-to-end goal in the Leafs' 5-3 victory vs the Devils.
"Since they were in my face all night, I found it ironic that we scored with four guys in their crease."--Cujo on Berezin's tying goal vs the Wings. Leafs won it in OT
"According to Kerry Fraser, guys can stand on the goal line beside me and lean on the crossbar. Where do you draw the line?"--Cujo (Poor Cujo, he doesn't realize that players are now allowed to pick up goalies, swing them around, throw them down and trample over them.)
"I thought I was going to die. It felt terrible for the next 10 hours."--Sergei Berezin after being struck in the cheekbone by Craig Rivet's stick
"You work hard to play in the playoffs all season long. I would've felt terrible if I couldn't play. The x-rays showed nothing was broken. The doctor said I was a lucky son-of-a-gun."--Sergei Berezin about his cheekbone
"I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there."--Darcy Tucker (Leaf fans all know that he is great...TUCKER ROCKS!)
"They hated me over there. They would lean over the glass and call me Alice. They thought my name was a girl's name."--Darcy Tucker about playing in Tampa Bay (Hehehe...Tampa fans are now kickin' themselves after Tucker's showing in the playoffs...but I guess they can't remember what the playoffs are like, so it wouldn't matter anyway...)
"Brodeur hit me with the butt-end of his stick in my back. If he's going to do that, then I'll run him over the next game."--Darcy Tucker
"We have to learn to hate them now. This is the playoffs."--Tie Domi about the Sens...(I have enough hate for those pesky Sens to compensate for ALL the Leafs! lol)
"Why are these injuries happening? Because this is hockey, not chess. Sometimes you just turn around and the puck is coming hard at you."--Alexander Karpovtsev about shot-blocking injuries
"I would love to swing my stick a little more. But everytime I put a stick on somebody the referee is cautioning me."--Curtis Joseph on retaliation to crease-crashers
"It was upsetting that the deal did not happen when I heard it was close."--Tucker on being traded (Wow...he really wanted out of TB! Can't blame him...the fans didn't appreciate him...)
"It turned me into somebody I wasn't. I went overboard at times. It hurt myself and my reputation. Losing every game is not a good thing for a team and individuals. I may have spoken up too much."--Darcy Tucker (YOU speak up too much? NEVER!)
"Maybe, I'll be one of those guys...Yeah, I'd like to be one of those guys."--Bryan Berard referring to playoff hockey players.
"You just have to go and hope you're relaxed. I know with me, it's not always easy. Sometimes, when I'm overly excited, I go out there early and get in trouble by trying to do something by myself. You think to yourself, you want to be the hero every night. Ricky Ley rides me pretty hard if I'm like that. He gets me back to my game."--Bryan Berard before the '98/'99 playoffs
"We knew we had to do a pretty good job on their big guys. They have lots of big guys who like to come out of the corners when they dump it in. I was trying to get good position on them and hit them as much as I could."--Danny Markov about the Flyers in the '98/'99 playoffs
"I remember that game. I didn't know anybody when I got to the rink. They (his teammates) said, 'Good hit'."--Danny Markov about the time he put the Phantoms mascot back in his place. :)
"It was almost a double knockout. We hit our heads together. Chris (Broadhurst) was looking around and saying, 'You all right? You all right?'"--Curtis Joseph when he and Markov collided in the '98/'99 playoffs vs the Penguins
"It adds a whole new dimension to the game. Those guys are pretty fast. Curtis got hit real hard once, but he always keeps going."--Garry Valk about the Penguins, and his teammate Joseph, in the '98/'99 playoffs
"I just did that as a joke. I've done it a couple of times in the playoffs and during the regular season. It's just meant to be fun."--Danny Markov when he got down on his knees and "blessed" his hockey stick with a short prayer before a game. (Jeez...Could this guy get any more ummm...weird?)
"I gained a lot of experiance in L.A. on face offs, and it really helps to be here with a shooter like Sergei on my line. Garry has the toughest job, though. He makes the first forecheck, he takes the first hit and he gives me and Sergei some room out there."--Yanic Perreault
"I hope it's not going to fall apart!"--Dmitry Yushkevich when asked if his body was up to the task of Penguin bowling in the '98/'99 playoffs
"Danny is not the type of guy who comes to you asking what to do. He tries to figure things out himself. He doesn't need much attention. I point out things sometimes to him but he's learning very quick by watching others on th eice. When I play with him, I don't feel he's a rookie. He plays like a veteran. It seems like every game he gains more confidence in himself. He's just doing great. We push eachother."--Yushkevich about Markov
"Before Game 6, a reporter asked me, 'Do you feel like you have to prove something?' and I said, 'Yeah.' I have proved for sure I am a good player after they traded me for nothing."--Yushkevich expressing how insulted he was that the Flyers traded him to the Leafs for a draft pick
"She dropped me on my butt. Then she told me, "Sometimes you have to pick your spots when to keep your mouth shut!'"--Darcy Tucker talking about his mother decking him while he was playing shinny on his backyard rink. (Note to Mrs. Tucker: As much as you disciplined him, he's still a mouthpeice!) :)
"He called me a melonhead. Why should I shake his hand? If I shake his hand, then I'm his friend. I never have to be nice to him. He's a jughead."--Tie Domi about Claude Lemieux...(He said it, not me...though I'd be lying if I said I didn't agree with that jughead comment...) :)
"Fighting is fun. Some guys get bored with it, not me. It's in my blood. I was born with it. Every game I have that itch."--Tie Domi (I guess that's why he'll never win an award for being a good role model to kids...lol) :p
"My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag."--Tie Domi on the hardest hit he's ever received. (Ahhh...nothing beats good old fashion sibling rivalry!!)
"He says, 'Mommy put me in Time Out, just like you Daddy!'"--TIe Domi explaining what his young son Max says when he's in trouble.
"I have a lot of superstitions, probably too many to mention. I do things before a game that many people would think were crazy. I knock on wood a lot when I have bad thoughts. I use an aluminum stick but the blade of it's wood so when I sit on the bench, it's always turned up and if I have a bad thought, I knock on the wood end of my shaft."--Darcy Tucker
"Someone has got to get the bloody thing, not just Curtis Joseph. If you're going to take nice pretty routes going some place, you're not going to get it back unless you line up at centre ice and win the face off."--Pat Quinn displaying his frustration at Toronto forwards.
"It must've taken two sheep to get wool for that thing!"--Tie Domi mocking Glenn Healy's sweater...(lol, do these guys EVER stop?)
"I've always liked scoring goals. That's my game, I think. But I like killing penalties too. If Pat Quinn gives me the ice time to play the PK I will. I love it. It keeps you in the game."--Sergei Berezin
"My wife says, 'all you can do is just play hockey and think about hockey'. But hockey is my life. It's all I've done in my life. Of course I like to spend time with my family, my wife and my son, but if there's something wrong for me in hockey, everything goes wrong."--Sergei Berezin.
"When Mats Sundin scores a goal everyone is happy and when Curtis Joseph makes a big save it's the same thing. But for me, it's making a good play on a 2-on-1, or throwing a big hit."--Danny Markov
"I don't mind getting hit or taking a shot but when the puck goes in and it's the game winner that's...You have to react."--Cujo about his now famous, and ever so comical temper tantrum in the quarter-finals
"I was clearly interfered with, and I couldn't save the puck and I could see it!"--Cujo (picture him saying it with his eyes kinda bugging out and a look of exasperation on his face and a shrill voice, it's much funnier...)
"Yeah, the coffee/coke...That'll settle you down!"--Glenn Healy making fun of Tucker
"Glenn Healy fugures I'll be driving myself crazy by the end of my career with all the superstitions that I got."--Darcy Tucker (Geez...he wouldn't have to drive very far!!!) j/k
"I think by far the most abusive of the situation is Darcy Tucker. I've never in my life seen a player with that many - or that wide spread. From coming in the door, coming out the door, to being in the room, how he drives to the rink, what he eats for breakfast, his mother-in-law's apple pie, the list is many. You could write a whole book!"--Glenn Healy about Tucker's superstitions
"Sometimes you see it with goaltenders, but our goaltenders aren't...they just play. So yeah, Darcy takes the cake."--Kevyn Adams (I don't care if he's a blue jacket...I still like him!)
"All you have to do is watch Darcy Tucker for 15 minutes and you've got an entire story. You could write a book on that."--Glenn Healy
"That guy looks like he's going to kick himself in the ass!"--Nik Antropov (tsk, tsk...I guess he's been spending too much time with Tie Domi...well, Berezin has said Domi is an excellent english teacher! lol)
"This is where dad wanted me to be. This is where I belong. He always dreamed of me playing for the Leafs and I know he is with me today, savouring this moment."--Shayne Corson when signing with the Leafs
"Last year, I had a lot of injuries but I know I can go out and play hard, be aggressive and be the same player I've always been. I want to give my heart and soul to this hockey club."--Shayne Corson
"We want to be a team that everyone around the league talks about as being tough to play every night. Now we can have a team that can physically dominate."--Darcy Tucker
"I've always wanted to visit Australia, ever since I did a project on kangaroos when I was in grade 5 or 6."--Tie Domi
"I don't think she really like me at first. I think she thought I was some cocky little boy. But eventually I won her over."--Darcy Tucker about his wife Shannon
"I want to be a Maple Leaf for a long time, hopefully for the rest of my career."--Darcy Tucker
"It was extra special that he was in on my first goal with the Leafs, but what made it more sweet is that we won the game."--Shayne Corson
"I don't know maybe a black cat must have walked infront of us or something"--Curtis Joseph after a loss
"Maybe he was trying to blind me with snow."--Cujo after Patrick Elias' odd breakaway attempt when he stopped infront of Joseph before taking a shot.
"I told many people this summer I bleed blue and white now."--Darcy Tucker...WOOHOO!!! What a coincidence! LOL
"It seemed so easy for two periods. Then all of a sudden (snaps his fingers) BOOM!"--Sergei Berezin about the shocking 6-5 loss to the Blues after being up 5-0 for two periods.
"Livid? I wasn't livid. I just thought it was interference. You guys have seen me livid."--Cujo...Mick McGeough has seen you livid too Cujo!
"I was just given the day off to rest. There was no beauty sleep, even though I probably need it."--Shayne Corson
"I'm standing there, doing a bit of chirping, and boom, he drives a left right into my mouth."--Bryan McCabe on Len Barrie's sucker punch.
"I dont neccessarily like my captain playing catch with people shooting at him."--Pat Quinn referring to some horseplay that had Sundin wearing Cujo's catching glove while the team rifled shots at him. Quinn put an end to the game quickly.
"Mats catches pretty good, considering they don't play much baseball in Sweden."--Cujo joking about Mats' goalie attempt
"Shut up pigeon, I'm trying to concentrate!"--Gary Roberts to Darcy Tucker. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
"Tie for Lindros!"--Garry Valk taking shots at all the goals Tie Domi has scored this season
