W. Hull
W. Hull
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Sometimes I think the league is just stifling itself, and I want people just to think and wonder... I talk all the time about how when I retire I want to be a part of the game.
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It's the same reason I've been known to be hard on players. But it's only because I want them to be better and be the best they can be. At times, I just don't think they try to do that, and it's the same with the league. Sometimes I don't think the league is trying to make itself better.
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It was so difficult to play that first year in the 1999 playoffs. Being known as the missing piece... to have that pressure on you, when all the people around the league always said you are never going to win with Brett Hull, and to have that pressure on you-it's unfathomable the pressure I felt.
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To play in the National Hockey League as a red blooded American kid... a Canadian kid, we all dreamed about it and I made a boyhood dream come true.
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Half the goalies in the league can't handle the puck anyway, so it will do their team a service to keep those guys in there.
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We lost a giant of the conservation movement when Gaylord died a few years ago, but his legacy lives on among those of us he taught to fight to protect the environment.
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We lost a couple going into that first game. We got confused. This time we held our heads high.
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We will never prevent environmental degradation until we stabilize our population. We simply must face up to this issue eventually, and it can't be too soon.
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I've never repeated, you know? We went to the finals back-to-back in Dallas, but we didn't win the second time. We lost in the final to Jersey. But if you have the same group, because of the knowledge you have, yeah, I think the journey is easier.
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I've only told Wayne Gretzky not to do one thing, and he didn't listen to me so I would never tell him not to do anything again,
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I should have been a child of the '60s.
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I've been sitting waiting the whole year. Since ninth grade I wondered what I'd do after high school. They say they want me, I'm there.
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I've committed myself to be this type of player. Bitch and moan as I may, I've committed myself to it, and I'm going to stay committed to it until I'm done, because they gave me a chance to win the ultimate goal. I'll never forget them for that.
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As I have already informed you, the present state of my health renders impossible my presence at Oslo on this most memorable occasion.