Brendan Shanahan Quotes

We lost a couple players and our rotation got a little messed up. We found a way to win. Obviously, this is a team on the other side that has been finding ways to win. There's no quit in Columbus. We knew they were going to come back. We maybe have to show a little bit more poise in our own end late in games. - Brendan Shanahan

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No one can accuse me of self-interest in all this. You could make a case that a lot of the new rules don't help my game out at all. - Brendan Shanahan

I think with the injuries he's had from his career, it's definitely frustrating for him. But he channels that frustration in a good way. He doesn't sulk about injuries. He just works harder. - Brendan Shanahan

[Many players are convinced that owners are attempting to divide the NHLPA. The owners' latest proposal called for players making less than $800,000 to maintain their current salaries while players making more than $5 million cut their salaries by 35 percent. If owners want to splinter the union, they're not going to be successful, Brendan Shanahan said.] The hockey mentality is that when we're challenged, we grow tighter together... One player or two might speak out and it might reflect (poorly) on the union, but 99 percent of the union will band together. - Brendan Shanahan