Bob Clarke Quotations

Until the doctors tell us he can play, I'm not even going to worry about it.

We'd like to get a defenseman. You don't want to pay an exorbitant price for somebody for a couple months. You know you're going to overpay, but how much?

What they're going through now will just enhance what they will do next year. I think they will move along at the NHL pace a lot quicker because of what they're going through now.

There are four or five teams selling and about 20 buying. The price for what's being offered is awful high right now. Whether teams get it or not, I don't know, but they're asking a lot.

Losing Kapanen for at least two months leaves us shallow at forward, so we thought that getting a player like Savage would really help our team.

Losing Kapanen for at least 2 months leaves us shallow at forward, so we thought that getting a player like Savage would really help our team.

No, never. Hitch, he's a pain in the butt on injuries. A guy gets a shoulder injury that's going to take about eight to 10 weeks, when it gets to be about seven weeks, he goes, 'Is he going to be ready tomorrow?' He lives on hope that the players are going to get back quicker. But we never allow that, neither do the doctors.

If we can get healthy, we'll be a really good team. If we're beat up going into the playoffs like we've been all year, it'll be a battle.

I don't have a problem with it at all. There was no criticism of the coaches, no criticism of the team. It's his assessment, and we don't even know if he's right.

Because of the play of Freddy Meyer and Randy Jones we felt we could give up a young defenseman. Not that we wanted to, but our theory was that we needed some more scoring ability and more skill up front.

I got as much information as I could and started working my way toward where the suspect was,

If the decision is made that he can't play for the rest of the season, he probably wouldn't play in the playoffs because it would be pretty tough to play after missing almost two years.

If the fans don't come out to see a kid like this play, who will they come to see? There are a number of young, good players in the league this year, but it doesn't get any better than this.

If someone doesn't want to reveal their identity, I wouldn't push it now, because this memo says we don't have to.

He was an ambitious, young, smart kid who was in a troubled situation, but had a vision of getting out of it.

He went with the better deal. They had a better offer to make than we could have.

He has size, strength, vision and speed--and he shoots the puck dead-on. He's only 20 years old and he's a major force. When he matures, he'll be dominating.

He'll move up in the middle (of the ice) and hit people. Like Kasparaitis, he'll go after the better players on other teams. I think that was one area where we felt we had to get better, especially with the injuries we have on defense.

We are full speed ahead right now. All of our main supplies should show up this month, and we'll start pouring concrete and won't stop until we are finished.

He's been training and skating for 45 minutes. He's been lifting weights and everything. He's had some spinning after that, but even though it's happening, he said they're getting shorter all the time. So he feels like he's getting better.

He's awfully aggressive but not unnecessarily so. People aren't going to come across our blue line with their head down when he's out there.

There are sharks all over, up and down the whole entire Gulf Coast, ... How do you warn someone that there are sharks out there all the time anyway?

I think where we get hurt is when the little forwards can buzz around the front of the net without being touched, If you knock them down, you get a penalty.

Our kids are always going to play hard, but gosh dang it, the penalties, the mental errors, so we'll work on that.

I think Peter knows what the results of the MRI were and he knows the risks involved. Going over there is his choice and he made the decision to go, so we wish him good luck except against the Canadians.

I think they?re going to call the interference penalties, but I?m not sure it needs to be called as tight as it is right now,

The arbitrator ruled 100 percent in our favor. THF agreed in the contract that we'd abide by the arbitrator's ruling. We also said in the contract that the loser would pay the winner all the legal fees and all the costs of the arbitration. We really don't see any reason why THF wouldn't pay us.

That would be a horrible idea for them to stop taking credit cards, even if it does cost more,

When I first saw it, I thought what in the world is going on. I thought that was a pretty good idea had they kept it up.

We are interested in it, but there is a lot of work that would have to be done before the residential portion gets started.

The contract becomes available if we're able to and want to find another player.

We've been doing a lot of outings. Attendance has been great.

We're all equal partners, everybody should have one chance at him.

This time it was unavoidable. The majority of the downturns in this cyclical business don't last this long.

We've got to add it all up. Until he tells me he and the doctors have agreed he can play I'm not even going to worry about it. Whether we can spring enough money to get him into any games or not I don't know. I haven't even thought about it because we've been under the assumption he's not going to play.

When we traded for Denis, we obviously liked him and wanted him on our club. We knew his contract was up at the end of this year and he was going to be unrestricted so we pursued him and we were able to come to a deal.

We tried. We made our best shot. Carolina had more than what we wanted to give up.

We felt Gauthier is a really good fit. He's a physical player. He'll move up the middle and he'll hit people. That was an area we felt we had to get better, especially with the injuries on defense.

We felt that with all the injuries we have had that Matt would bring more versatility to our lineup. He can play center and wing. We always felt that Patrick was a better center. We have lots of centers, even though we have some injuries right now. We just felt that Matt was a better fit for our team, although we realize that we gave up a good young player.

We felt that he has been a really good goal scorer in the National Hockey League, has good speed and is a skilled hockey player. Losing Kapanen for at least two months leaves us shallow at forward, so we thought that getting a player like Savage would really help our team.

We think that this is the best player that we've had in years and years in this organization. At this time in August, we're a great team. We'll see where we are in November, but we're really, really excited to have Peter here with us, and we hope he puts the finishing touches on our team.

Another 200 people showed up; 200 people came out of the blue just because they'd heard about it. There was a standing ovation at the end of the movie.

The way it was going, it wasn't good for Claude and it wasn't good for the team, either. His conditioning was deteriorating. You never knew who was going in or out of the lineup. This way he's getting help and when he's done, he'll be back.

It would be better for us to call up guys from the Phantoms in times like these but we can?t because of cap dollars. It costs you money against the cap to practice these guys.

Sami last week had a collision with one of our players when they were fooling around. He hurt his shoulder and had an MRI performed on him yesterday. The results were that he's got a slap tear, they call that, and a partial thickness tear of his rotator cuff. He'll have surgery early next week, and will miss approximately 10 weeks from the date of surgery.

Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented.

Once we signed Forsberg, we knew we had to make a trade.

Dean was considered by his peers to be one of the better general managers in the league. We think he can be a huge asset for us. A person of his background and talents, if he so chooses will be back in the NHL as a manager but at this stage we are very happy to have an addition like him to our staff.

You're not going to get a top four defenseman. And we never even thought about trading a goalie.

They should have their product as accessible as possible.

There's a risk for every player who goes over there. It's a very high level of play. I think Peter's risk is probably a little higher, but that's the chance you take when you play.

There's been a clear trend towards looking like you mean business. We're selling all we can make.

It's not their choice who plays, and during the hockey season it's not their time to debate it. If one guy wins, the whole team wins. If one guy loses, the whole team loses. Their job is to support one another and support the team.

It's only two games. We know where we are at in the world.

I wanted to start with the Hollywood part, a la 'Sunset Boulevard,' ... We needed to know something about these people. ... Then let's go back and see how she got to this state.

It was just re-grouping. We were an undisciplined team (Monday). When things got bad, we got worse. We can't play dumb like that.

They?ve got to be careful. I don?t think they intended to take the physical play out of the game, so they?ll have to sort that out.

After the season, we lost (Vladimir) Malakhov, (Marcus) Ragnarsson and (Mattias) Timander. They are three big defensemen. We felt we had to replace them, get better and we did.

It's no different than having an injury. He's strong enough to ask the Players' Association and the league for assistance. So let's get him the help he needs and get on with his life.

If there are going to be calls for every little nick and hold, ... it's going to be a broken game again.

In some places, community protection is more important than the ecological concerns.

Clearly it was the first film to treat the sexual coming of age of young men. It horrified some people, but it also had some very strong supporters.

Claude's getting the help that he needs. We obviously support anyone who goes for help.

Claude's getting the help that he needs, ... We obviously support anyone who goes for help.

He's one of those old-school quarterbacks. He gets the job done but he's not very pretty doing it.

He told me he had just turned 17 and I remember joking around saying why didn't your parents hold you back? He said, 'Hey, there's 10 of us. They're not holding anybody back.

If it affects the team, I will have to address it. Otherwise, it doesn't matter to me.

If he?s going to play it?s going to be his decision based on his relationship with the doctors. If they clear him and he thinks it?s the right thing to do, then he?s welcome to play.

If everything goes well with Forsberg the way the doctors have told us, he will get back in before training is over and be ready by the start of the season. Even though it is a little bit disappointing, it is something we can live with.

He's not a natural quarterback but he's a natural leader. Half the time, he's the kind of guy who will drive you nuts in practice watching him. But in games he just knows what to do and nothing rattles him.

A lot can happen during a season. You have to have an awful lot go right to win a Stanley Cup.

The doctors have talked to Keith about it and he's got all the information. It's horrible, but there's really nothing he or we can do about it.