It's always a tough situation when a great player has to retire. He's meant so much to not only the National Hockey League, but the city of Pittsburgh and that franchise. You don't replace players like Mario Lemieux. He's a great hockey player and a good person. The game will miss him.
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Gretzky, the league's all-time leading scorer, downplayed the role he can play in getting hockey back on its feet. We all have a responsibility to the game, ... Everything I have in my life is because of the NHL. Yet I'm a small part of going forward with this game. No one individual is bigger or better than our sport.
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It's not my call. You have to ask those guys. I'm retired. You're asking the wrong guy. I would tell you honestly I couldn't play with a visor. But that doesn't mean I have all the answers.
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We're here for a little bit of a tour for four or five days, just to get together and kind of talk about the season. The players everybody is talking about are all playing well, and decisions are very difficult. No matter what we do, there is going to be a controversy.
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We're going to get a lot of calls over the next four weeks. Obviously, we'll listen.
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