Championships Quote by T. J. Oshie

Detroit is known as 'Hockeytown,' but the Lions are truly the soul of the city.

— Jemele Hill

Hockey is definitely a huge sport in Boston.

— Joe Thornton

L.A. will never be a hockey town. I'm a huge hockey fan, and people out here do not appreciate hockey as much as they…

— Jean-Luc Bilodeau

I really do enjoy coming to the rink and working hard, putting the time in as you need when you get older. But the…

— Joe Thornton

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

— Ted Lindsay

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

— Peter Forsberg

I'm proud to have a small part in the growth of hockey in D.C., but our organization does so much every day to get…

— Alexander Ovechkin

I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red…

— Rachel Nichols

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the…

— Marcel Dionne

Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.

— Jana Kramer

I grew up in a hockey town.

— Pat Connaughton

There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing…

— Mark Messier