Barry Trotz

“I've had the opportunity to have different style teams with similar identities but opposite identities in some ways.”

“Bobby Orr, I thought he was the greatest player of all time because he was so far ahead of the competition in his prime.”

“There are a couple things that I could be doing, maybe owning a coffee shop or work in construction, building houses back in Nashville or British Columbia. I've also thought about being a property owner which would give me income and allow me to fix and maintain those properties to keep me busy.”

“My oldest daughter got married, she had a wedding in Hawaii and a reception in Nashville, and in between I had a Cup date in Dauphin, Manitoba.”

“When you surround yourself with some of the best in the business you can only get better.”

“I became a citizen after 9/11.”

“Four has been my lucky number. I have four kids; it has been a really good number for me.”

“Practices for me, when your team is not going really well, it can stake a lot of stink out of the air.”

“My father, Orest, worked as a mechanic for the CNR and he got transferred to Dauphin from Winnipeg.”

“If you're going to be a championship-caliber team or a threat to be a championship-caliber team you have to play a 200-foot game and you have to produce on both ends of the ice.”

“You make mental notes. You're a coach, so you make mental notes from matchups, to who steps up in the playoffs to who doesn't, different types of players.”

“Back-to-back Presidents' Trophies, I don't think that happens too often.”

“For my size, I think I played bigger than my size. I tried to play bigger, which is probably why I got as injured as I did.”

“The team that can be consistent - for the most part all year - is going to be the team that is going to get into the playoffs.”

“I've been watching the growth of Auston Matthews, for instance. If he were playing 20 years ago, we'd be saying he's Mario Lemieux-like. He's 6-foot-5. He skates great. He's got unbelievable hands and a hockey IQ.”

“The great thing about the Island is you've got room. You can go for a bike ride. We're 20 minutes to a beach, and you can get on the beach and go for a long walk.”

“I think I'm very adaptable.”

“Obviously my former place in Washington, you got stars like Alex Ovechkin. Those are great challenges because you're looking at a player who does something very unique and trying to grow him in areas.”

“I have a list of stuff I need to do during the day. I try to do a couple of hours of professional stuff, be it hockey stuff I haven't gotten to the last little while, husband stuff, everything to repairing stuff around the house that I neglected around the winter.”

“You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.”