“I know Stan Bowman in Chicago all season long - all summer long - was trying to trade Nick Leddy."

"... You will be shocked at how good Nick Bonino is. Nick Bonino is a really, really good player.”

Check out some of the line combinations from around the league as players officially hit the ice for the first time.

"I think Yakupov should be better. His skill level is excessive. It’s extremely good."

"They want money that’s reflective of the market of a player produces the way that Ryan Johansen produced last year. They’re not going to get it."

"I wouldn’t go so far as to say that they’re all substance and no style, but it’s not far off the mark."

"There’s no question about the leadership of Sidney Crosby and what he brings every day to his team and to his teammates."

"To be honest, I was really sick of certain media guys throwing people under the bus."

“If you’re turning down $49 million – say you went on to free agency. What are you going to get? $51 million? What’s the difference at that point?"

"There's only so many 6-4, 230-pound centericemen walking down the streets."

"We're trying to get this done."

“It was a tough summer. An accommodation would have been good for myself and another team, but nothing materialized out of it."

"Gary and owners like the money, but they don't want to be first out of the box with this in North America. They'll wait for the NBA or baseball to do it and then be second or third."

"I can tell you that a handful of teams, if not more, made trade offers - I can’t be specific to anyone – but made trade offers on Ryan Johansen over the course of the summer and probably during the season leading up to the trade deadline and maybe over the NHL draft."

"This storyline is going to continue to fester and probably won’t go away until he signs longer-term or they decide they are going to do something like trade.”

"The only way Steven Stamkos ends up in Toronto is Tampa Bay offers him the entire city and he says, ‘No, I’d rather go to Toronto.’"

"I think before, not that I didn’t work hard, but I think I just took it for granted."

"He’s a right-hand shot. He likes to leave the zone early. He can handle the puck on his backhand, receiving a pass as well as most forwards in the league."

"Do it once or twice more. Make us pay. Go ahead and make us pay!"

"We can check off the first box on what he has to do to stick with us.”