Brendan Shanahan
Brendan Shanahan
Brendan Frederick Shanahanis a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player who currently serves as the president and alternate governor for the Toronto Maple Leafs, having previously serving as the director of player safety for the NHL...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth23 January 1969
CityToronto, Canada
front great head hope market page puts shake
I sometimes shake my head at the some of the things that J.R. says, but in the end, L.A. is a great market and I hope he puts us on the front page there every week.
approach certainly desperate good less start taxing team
Our approach going in was they were a desperate team and if we could get of to a good start we could get them to press. It's certainly a lot easier, a lot less taxing to play with the lead.
ahead stay trying
I'm just trying to stay ahead of my age.
adding class columbus great guys hoping player sure
Sergei is a great player with world-class talent. Adding a player like that, I'm sure Columbus is hoping it'll get a lot of their young guys excited.
buying excited feeling game highs home lows newspaper next worst
The worst thing is going home feeling so-so about a tie. Those highs and lows are what get you excited about the game and get you buying a newspaper the next day.
anyone expect games team win
I don't think there was anyone on this team that didn't expect that we were going to have to win games in Edmonton.
anyone best game road seem team win
I don't think there was anyone on this team that didn't think we'd have to win in Edmonton. The road is a place where we seem to play our best hockey, so it's on to Game 3.
definitely game missed sorry taken
I definitely missed the game and I was sorry to see it taken away from us,
counting cups mind missed opportunity people red stanley three window wings won year
I don't mind that people are counting us out. My first year here was 1997 and that's when a lot of people thought the Red Wings had missed their window of opportunity and we won our first of three Stanley Cups together.
changes credit last talking
A lot of the changes that are being made in the NHL, he should get a lot of credit for, ... He's been talking about these things for the last 10 years.
absolutely people time wrong
Some people told me that, with the lock-out, this was the wrong time to do something like this. I thought it was absolutely the right time - even the only time - to do it.
changes half judged knows league mean rules season second standard
The league knows that the enforcement of the rules is really going to be judged in the second half of the season and in the playoffs. It will all mean nothing if the standard changes during that time.
future mess past start thinking
In this league, you can never look past opponents. You'll get yourself into trouble. Start thinking about the future, it's going to mess up your present.
fun hockey holding hooking playing
Playing hockey is fun. Going out and hooking and holding really isn't fun.