18 February 2002, Utah, USA

I don't think we dislike those other countries as much as they hate us. They don't like us, they want to see us fail, they love beating us. They may tell you something different, but when you're on the ice, that's what they say. They don't like us.

We gotta get that same feeling towards them.

I mean right now it's comical listening to things that are being said. It almost sickens my stomach to turn the TV on because I'm such a proud Canadian and such a fan of our game and very proud of all the guys in the locker room, and it makes me ill to hear some of the things that are being said about us.

Well, it's just not very good.
And what's really annoying to me, in the seventies we went through this whole thing about hooliganism and all that sort of stuff. If we would've did what they did tonight, it would have been a big story. I think the guy should be suspended for the rest of the tournament.

If it was a Canadian player that did it it would be a big story. But a Czech player did it, it's okay.

Yeah I just don't understand it.

You guys saw it. If I'm wrong, I'd apologise. But one of the things we've gotta eliminate out of our game is that kind of stuff, and if a Canadian did it, it would be big news.

But a Czech does it, and it's okay.

And I don't understand it. There was a spear, and a cross check in the same play ... I don't get it.

There should have been four or five penalties, blatant penalties, an should have been two or three suspensions. Am I hot? Yeah I'm hot. Because I'm tired of people taking shots at Canadian hockey.

When we do it, we're hooligans. But when Europeans do it, that's okay because they're not tough or they're not dirty,. That's a crock of crap.

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