Robert Lang Quotations

Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car. It's just a big Western city.

New Orleans has a lot of energy talent. You can't build that from scratch.

I'd like to get a couple more of those.

I think you go there and you do sort of get a little jump start just from being with your buddies and playing a little bit different hockey. I think a lot of guys, even the guys from Swedish team, even though Hank played really good before, now, he's even playing better than he was before, just kind of effortless. So I think all of us sort of benefit from that and it's just nice.

I think once you get up there, you know it's up the alley and you're doing something really special, you're part of something pretty good. But I don't think anybody is really going like, hey, we've got to have two more to beat this record. You just sort of go with the flow.

It does get you going for the rest of the season.

You can build a big metro economy purely out of high-level services. You get people there with gambling, then rope them into consuming other things.

You know you're doing something special, and part of something, but nobody is thinking about it day to day.

The decade began with the economy off track, but the population boom kept rolling along and is on track to nearly match the record 1990s. The country found places to keep booming, shying away from the high-cost coasts and seeking the South and the mountain West.

We have given Robert a chance to compete for the Stanley Cup.

We had the play set up well. We moved the puck up high, down low and over to me.

Are you telling me they're going to do a new urbanist village when the center of the economy is vice? ... Casinos in Mississippi were such a pariah land use that they were not even on land. Now they're going to be the basis of a traditional community?

The schedule isn't favoring us. But it's a good event and you have to make the best of it.

I told him he set a pretty high standard.

It's a little bit easier to be in the swing of things than when you are just not getting out there all the time. Like every player, you like to play as much as you can.

It's gone from a circus act to a regular city. The experience of Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car, from Dino (Dean Martin) and his friends and swingers to minivans and shopping malls. It's just a big Western city.

It was a good check (of) where we stand,

They have two qualities that allow them to receive so many people: They're big and they're close. They're also part of a cultural zone in the South that people would feel most connected to.

These things have always happened organically. What we don't have experience with is a contrivance of this, where it's engineered.

I'm sure he was a little sore. He played well. There was no reason for him to get hurt more.

He's one of the only guys who could have challenged (Wayne) Gretzky had he played long enough. Gretzky had a longer career and was fortunate to play more games than Mario. As a pure point-getter, he's right up there with Wayne.

But you have sort of a pattern now.

Herbie has us skating all the time, all over the ice. There's much more movement than before. That's fun for us.

Their line was the difference today. Our fourth line was playing great and you're going to need that.

The dispersion shows this is one well-networked country with big social networks.