We might have, with Hockey Canada, an Aero Bar, a chocolate bar. 'Okay we're going to play for this chocolate bar.' Here you have guys who made millions of dollars, they're professional athletes, and they will fight tooth and nail to win. It's not necessarily for the chocolate bar. It's the competitive spirit.

Barry Trotz

The guys who don't get a lot of minutes, you get a lot more practice, you're on the ice, you're getting maybe a better workout, though you might not be getting all of the game stuff.

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Work You Workout

Missing a game or getting a little bit of a bump up or getting a scolding once in a while puts everybody in their right place.

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While Very Up

Every player is wired differently. Some players you know exactly where they're headed, where they're going and what they're thinking. There are other guys wired differently. It allowed me to understand the personality of Alexander Ovechkin.

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You Wired Wire

I'd love to go in the foxhole with guys who will stick their neck out and say, 'I'm going to deliver for you.'

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Love You Wit

Having a wheel mentality is paramount. It gives you time and space.

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Time Space Men

There's too much parity in the NHL.

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Too Much Too T

A lot of teams get a lot of offense off the rush.

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Us Teams Team

There's going to be a point in time when I can go to a NHL game in Nashville with my grandkids. That's really special.

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Time Wit Tim

Even when I eat, I'll eat my salad first and sort of work around the plate.

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Work UN T

I think I have a lot more respect for someone who will be bold enough to say, 'I'm the leader of the hockey team, we're going to go there and give our best game and we're going to win the hockey game.'

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Respect Win Will

You don't have that good team effort without good goaltending.

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Good You Without

Sometimes you get blinded by results rather than the process.

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Time You Times

A nontraditional hockey market is turning into more of a traditional market. We're now a fabric of Nashville.

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Turning Turn Traditional

There are a couple things that I could be doing, maybe owning a coffee shop or work in construction, building houses back in Nashville or British Columbia. I've also thought about being a property owner which would give me income and allow me to fix and maintain those properties to keep me busy.

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Work Would Which

The great thing about David Poile and Nashville is they believe in the people that they hire and they stick with the people that they hire.

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Great Wit Tick

In an 82-game season, you're going to have some dry spells where goals are harder to come by, and other times they're just going to come in bundles.

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Time You Where

Use your assets in the right areas. Commit to outside speed. Don't always go into the junk pile in the middle of the ice when there are eight guys there.

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Your You Ways

Hopefully my time in Nashville has helped me. We've had a lot of different things happen to our hockey club, seen a lot of different situations and different types of clubs from an expansion team to a Stanley Cup playoff threat. I think any coach that's gone through those things, you become a better coach.

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Time Hope You

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

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World Very Understand

I'm a big believer that if you can have success in the playoffs, when it means the most and when the game is at its highest pace, it always carries into the next year and it gives a player confidence.

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Success Car You

A new challenge, to me, is really exciting.

Barry Trotz

Part of the greatness of being on the Island is it's a smaller community; all of the players live within a couple miles of each other. It really promotes that family sort of atmosphere without being engulfed by the big city.

Barry Trotz

What happens when you have to use your top guys so much, they're going to hit a wall at some point, and they'll go four or five games where they just don't have the juice to play at the level that you need, and therefore your team suffers a little bit.

Barry Trotz

One thing I've learned from all my time with Team Canada is that they're very, very prepared so knowing that's part of the DNA of Team Canada, you have to be prepared with whatever area your responsibility belongs to.

Barry Trotz

You can't take your foot off the pedal; you've got to get pucks to the next level.

Barry Trotz

Anytime you go to the All-Star Game, you recognize that it's special. It's an experience that you don't want to pass up.

Barry Trotz

The great thing about the Island is you've got room. You can go for a bike ride. We're 20 minutes to a beach, and you can get on the beach and go for a long walk.

Barry Trotz

One of the blessings of Notre Dame is where it's at. It's in the middle of nowhere, but you become part of the community. It's a lifestyle, and it has a code, and that code teaches young men and women responsibility and leadership.

Barry Trotz

There's times where I go off the rails like anybody else. For the most part, I try to keep it, 'Hey, this is what we're dealt and this is the situation, so let's make the best of it.' Keep a positive attitude.

Barry Trotz

We might have, with Hockey Canada, an Aero Bar, a chocolate bar. 'Okay we're going to play for this chocolate bar.' Here you have guys who made millions of dollars, they're professional athletes, and they will fight tooth and nail to win. It's not necessarily for the chocolate bar. It's the competitive spirit.

Barry Trotz

The Kings played out of the Memorial Community Centre, an old wooden barn like you'd see in other Prairie towns. It was built after World War II and the Kings were the biggest thing in town. The Memorial was packed for every game - maybe 3,000 when we'd play the Kenora Muskies or other rival towns. It seemed like everyone in town came out to games.

Barry Trotz

Just like all young players, there is a difference between being involved and just participating.

Barry Trotz

As a coach, you look for the elements. Sort of like a chemist, you want to say, 'Okay, here we have all of the parts,' and make what you think will be a successful line.

Barry Trotz

You get mentally fatigued and you get physically fatigued, too. Usually that's when bad things happen on the ice and then you're more at risk for injury.

Barry Trotz

The team that can be consistent - for the most part all year - is going to be the team that is going to get into the playoffs.

Barry Trotz

I became a citizen after 9/11.

Barry Trotz

Sometimes when you start playing games you don't get as many practices and you don't get as many touches. People think you have the puck the whole time during a game - you really don't.

Barry Trotz

My son and I ride a tandem bike. We turn the music on and just enjoy riding through our neighborhood.

Barry Trotz

As I have evolved as a coach, I was a guy who was all about the game and a person who focused on the wins and losses.

Barry Trotz

Hopefully when I make it to 80, I can go to a hockey game and watch the Predators and Capitals play with my grandkids. That's probably my legacy on the hockey side.

Barry Trotz

Bobby Orr, I thought he was the greatest player of all time because he was so far ahead of the competition in his prime.

Barry Trotz

Obviously my former place in Washington, you got stars like Alex Ovechkin. Those are great challenges because you're looking at a player who does something very unique and trying to grow him in areas.

Barry Trotz

I have that look like I'm going to tear your head off. As a younger guy, I think I had that look even more and had a reputation for being in your face a lot, but as I've gotten older I think I've filtered some of that out.

Barry Trotz

I've had the opportunity to have different style teams with similar identities but opposite identities in some ways.

Barry Trotz

You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.

Barry Trotz

I think a lot of times what practice can do for you when guys are playing a lot of minutes, it sometimes takes away a little bit of their sharpness, because they have the puck a lot and all that.

Barry Trotz

I think anytime you experience the All-Star Games, the World Cups, the Olympics and all those things - those are great experiences, and those don't come along that often.

Barry Trotz

Goaltending can steal you a series.

Barry Trotz

Goal scorers are always sniffing things out, but once they realize 'hey, if I don't have the puck I can't score,' then you have to be a part of the solution so you can get it back so you can score.

Barry Trotz

If you have to change some laws, get that done. If it's getting schools, the next generation, to understand love and understanding, let's get that done.

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