The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.
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I knew all the past history of the teams in New York ... but I don't think anything can really prepare you for going to play in New York until you get there. I felt that I was fairly confident in what it took to win a Stanley Cup.
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It's hard to compare any two coaches.
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I don't know that I ever really considered it. I was definitely open to listening to his offers but I knew in my heart that if I was going to play it was going to be in New York.
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Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.
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Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.
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