Reply To: Hockey One Liners

[DaveM]

Good idea Tom. I was pretty impressed with the fireside chat idea and all the coaches you could get to do them. I laughed pretty hard when I realized what you were doing. Here's one line that comes to mind for me

"I want you to get the puck out BEFORE YOU GET IT" -Scotty Bowman
From an SI story about being in the dog house in the NHL:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1164568/2/index.htm

From the article: "One time [the Red Wings] had played poorly on special teams and we were practicing the penalty kill," Ward says. "The puck comes to me, I stop for a second and then shoot it out of the zone. Scotty blows the whistle and starts screaming that I should get rid of the puck before I get it. There I am, wondering if that's even physically possible. Now we're doing a drill where the [defensemen] have to get the puck out of the zone off the face-off, and he's standing at the boards at the blue line. For me to get it out, I'm going to have to wing it right at him. At this point I probably haven't been in the lineup for two weeks. Off the face-off the puck comes to me way too easy in the corner—you can see [centers] Steve Yzerman and Kris Draper grinning—so I fire it around the boards and wham! it hits Scotty in the head. He's bleeding. My career's over. He blows the whistle and screams, 'That's how you get the puck out of a zone.'
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Funny story and good beginning to the thread.