Brian Leetch Quotes (31 Quotes)

I think that's a function of the guys adjusting. Before, guys would automatically put a stick to the hands and things like that. It's the same with any time they change a rule. If they continue to call it, guys will adjust and it will be in. It's just whether the officials are going to continue along that path.

I'm not looking forward to it. I thought I'd be a Ranger for my entire career. So to go back, I'm not looking forward to it the first few times back. It's not something that I'm excited about. It'll be uncomfortable.

It's been strong and I haven't had any so-called setbacks or real soreness in the last few workouts. If I can get through (today's) practice with the team, I'd like to play (tomorrow night against the Isles), but that would be up to coach (Mike) Sullivan. But I think the training staff is pushing for (tomorrow) to be my return date.

The power play is based on results and not how many chances you get. We missed a chance to get points last night, so it magnified the importance of this game.

I hope they don't mention I was on the ice for all four goals in the loss. Hopefully they won't remember that, because that was disappointing.

We needed to be strong after we got the lead, but we let them back in it. We need to beat this team since we have eight games with them. We have some games left with Montreal, so we need to stay within striking distance.

I don't expect to be booed. I expect it to be a fun night. Just sitting on the bench between shifts will be the most difficult part as your mind wanders.

He got me with his shoulder or his helmet, I'm not sure which. I thought the puck was going down the boards and then all of a sudden it was in front of me, and, bang.

It was nothing (specific). It wasn't like there was a violent move or anything, just like when I hurt it the first time in practice. It just went again.

I thought we gave it away. I don't know what else to say. We gave away points today to a team in our own division. It's unacceptable.

Your accomplishments on the ice will live in the record books forever. But I just want to thank you personally for a great friendship over the years.

We had been effective on the power play in preseason so when we got those chances in the third period I was confident we'd do something. Then the rebound on their power play went right to him Ryder at the wrong time.

We look forward to playing at home, but this is a bad way to go home after a loss like this.

I didn't want to leave. I played my first game as an 18-year-old here and I got traded on my 36th birthday.

You just can't give up a goal in a short-handed situation.

It reminded me of sitting in Yankee Stadium at the beginning of the games when the guys in the bleachers are yelling out to all the guys in the field. You are used to going into a building and they are for you or against you. It's never in between like that. It was really a different night.

We haven't won a game in the division yet, and that's something none of us is happy about. These are teams we play a lot and we want to get points up on them early. There's a lot of disappointment that we can't get it done.

He had the biggest influence on my career by far of any player that I played with. I wish everyone could have had an opportunity to be in the locker room with him and see his dedication to his teammates and to winning.

Each bad game hurt even more because I didn't want to let him down.

Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros,

He'd eliminate the man, and my job was to clean up from there. I think I'm able to adapt to different partners, play off their strengths and go from there.

It's like I've been saying all year. The power play is based on results. It doesn't matter how many chances you get or how long you're in the zone. Tonight at a key time we got a deflection and it looks like the power play was the difference, and in the end it was.

It's not anything serious. But it makes more sense to miss a couple of days now than have it drag on through camp.

That's one of the reasons I took a one-year deal here. If the Bruins decided the best thing for the organization was for me to go somewhere else, I would only have the rest of this year in a different organization. And then I could make a decision again next summer. It would be Mike's (O'Connell) call, just like it was (Rangers GM) Glen's (Sather) call in New York.

I skated around in a fog out there. Unfortunately it showed and our team played that way, too. It's hard to play a hockey game when your mind is like that.

It's always exciting to come somewhere you wanted to, an 'Original Six' team, and of course, the Bruins, ... It means a lot to me.

I just wish our team could have been better so it could have been more of a celebration than an ending, ... The same with Gretz, too. It was disappointing for him. I guess the flip side is if they were on good teams, they both might have played forever. Mark came back to New York to try to help things get back on track. When it didn't work out, he said, 'That's it.'

I'm not sure what it is. I've never had a knee injury as a pro. Eighteen years ago, or something like that, I hurt my left knee, but . . . we'll have to see, I'm not sure what it is.

Pretty much every year that I've been involved in the NHL there's been some player that hasn't been in camp or some contract dispute. Most of the time it's been worked out before the start of the season. I expect it will here.

It's just frustrating to have to keep going through this, so I can't give you a realistic (timetable).

We're playing well and just having trouble closing them out. We've just got to get better as a team at learning how to win.