Barry Trotz

“Having a wheel mentality is paramount. It gives you time and space.”

“One of the things you look for is leadership, and it comes in different forms. There's vocal leaders, there's quiet leaders, there's leaders that lead by example.”

“There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.”

“My son and I ride a tandem bike. We turn the music on and just enjoy riding through our neighborhood.”

“Hopefully when I make it to 80, I can go to a hockey game and watch the Predators and Capitals play with my grandkids. That's probably my legacy on the hockey side.”

“Part of the greatness of being on the Island is it's a smaller community; all of the players live within a couple miles of each other. It really promotes that family sort of atmosphere without being engulfed by the big city.”

“Sometimes when you start playing games you don't get as many practices and you don't get as many touches. People think you have the puck the whole time during a game - you really don't.”

“You get mentally fatigued and you get physically fatigued, too. Usually that's when bad things happen on the ice and then you're more at risk for injury.”

“My wife usually gives me a project... I like going to work because I can be the boss for once.”

“I have that look like I'm going to tear your head off. As a younger guy, I think I had that look even more and had a reputation for being in your face a lot, but as I've gotten older I think I've filtered some of that out.”

“Joining the Islander family and living on the Island has been special.”

“There's too much parity in the NHL.”

“Every player is wired differently. Some players you know exactly where they're headed, where they're going and what they're thinking. There are other guys wired differently. It allowed me to understand the personality of Alexander Ovechkin.”

“Anytime you go to the All-Star Game, you recognize that it's special. It's an experience that you don't want to pass up.”

“Goal scorers are always sniffing things out, but once they realize 'hey, if I don't have the puck I can't score,' then you have to be a part of the solution so you can get it back so you can score.”

“What happens when you have to use your top guys so much, they're going to hit a wall at some point, and they'll go four or five games where they just don't have the juice to play at the level that you need, and therefore your team suffers a little bit.”

“Sometimes you get blinded by results rather than the process.”

“There's a tension in Washington that was undeniable. I could write my name in the air there.”

“Sometimes, when things aren't coming easy, you've got to fight through that.”

“Every day, I do hockey-related stuff all morning.”