Joe Sakic

Joe Sakic
Joseph Steven Sakicis a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He played his entire 21-year National Hockey Leaguecareer with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise. Named captain of the team in 1992, Sakic is regarded as one of the most capable team leaders in league history and was able to motivate his team to play at a winning level. Sakic led the Avalanche to Stanley Cup titles in 1996 and 2001, being named the most valuable player of the...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth7 July 1969
CountryCanada
Everything's in the past. We're moving on. We just want to win games.
Ted is the right man for the job. He's the architect of the deal and he knows the CBA inside-out. I think this just a minority group of disgruntled players.
Correct. I have not thought about it once. Everything is going to work out.
You expect to be there right at the end. I think we learned a lot here about what it takes at this level, this stage. We weren't good enough.
To be honest, I don't care how it went in.
There's no question we're going to be different. We're going to miss those guys, but I think we've done a good job in filling holes and getting a lot of depth with our club.
There's no question we're going to be different,
There's no carry-over ... What happened in the regular season doesn't matter. They've had a tremendous year, they've got an excellent hockey team and it's going to be tough. But we believe in ourselves.
There's no excuse. We have to find a way.
There's obviously goals. I don't want to be hanging around for (an extended) period of time, ... When it's my time to go, they'll tell me.
There's nothing to say really. That's between him and Steve. The players, it's got nothing to do with us. We're here for the Olympics.
We expect all of the acquisitions that we made to help our club, ... I expect us to be right up there with everybody else competing for the Stanley Cup.
We ended up sitting back a bit and they started to come. But there were a lot of good things and a lot of things guys did better.
We are too spread out on the breakouts. When you're spread out, you start trying to do it on our own. Against these countries, they're just too good for that.