QUOTES / PASSAGES / MISCELLANY

• Maple Leafs coach Punch Imlach, on Johnny Bower, goaltender, Toronto.
• ESPN Hockey Analyst Barry Melrose, on Patrick Roy, goaltender, Colorado.
• Chicago coach Billy Reay, nominating Tony Esposito, goaltender, Chicago.
• Pat LaFontaine casts his ballot for Grant Fuhr, goaltender, Buffalo.
• Panthers center Brian Skrudland on Patrick Roy, goaltender, Colorado.
• The Hockey News 1997-98 Yearbook, on Patrick Roy, goaltender, Colorado.
• Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky on Ron Hextall, goaltender, Philadelphia.

• Francois Allaire, goaltender coach, on stopping wraparound goals.
• Gerry Cheevers, goaltender, Boston, on handling the puck.
• Jacques Plante, goaltender, Montreal, on the basic strategy involved in goaltending.

• Ken Dryden, goaltender, Montreal, on the biggest enemy for a goaltender.
• Ken Dryden, discussing the impossibility of stopping a Bobby Hull slapshot.
• Ken Dryden, describing the intense one-on-one battle between Montreal's Guy Carbonneau and Edmonton's Grant Fuhr.
• Ken Dryden, comparing the reactions of Edmonton's Grant Fuhr and Montreal's Patrick Roy at the beginning of a period.
• Tony Esposito, on the pressure he goes through in a hockey game.
• Tony Esposito, on the secret to getting shutouts.
• Blaine Lacher, goaltender, Boston, on how it feels to let in a goal.
• Frank "Ulcers" McCool, on the loneliness that goaltenders feel.
• Kirk McLean, on how tough the goaltender's job is.
• Jacques Plante, goaltender, Montreal, on what it's like to play goaltender in the NHL
• Mike Richter, goaltender, New York Rangers, on the biggest enemy for a goaltender.
• Skip Rozin, writer, discussing the futility of playing the position of goaltender.

• Bob Berry, coach, St. Louis, on the number of shots Blues' goaler Curtis Joseph sees in a game.
• Dino Ciccarelli, forward, Detroit, on what it's like to play against San Jose Sharks' goaltender Arturs Irbe.
• Ken Dryden, on seeing himself on television.
• Emile Francis, goaltender, New York Rangers, describing how he handled a shooter who liked to use his head for target practice.
• Glenn Healy on mistakes.
• Arturs Irbe, goaltender, San Jose, responding to Winnipeg's Tie Domi after being informed that Domi intended to hurt Irbe in the near future.
• Kirk McLean, on why he became a goaltender.
• Austin Murphy, writer, on the lack of respect shown to goaltender Dominik Hasek by his own son.
• Patrick Roy, experiencing his first Denver cab ride as a member of the Colorado Avalanche.
• Gump Worsley on a job worse than goaltending.

• writer Stu Hackel on the changes goaltender masks brought to the game of hockey.
• Jacques Plante, goaltender, Montreal, when asked if wearing a goaltender mask meant that he had lost his courage.
• Jacques Plante, on why he decided to finally wear a mask.
• Jacques Plante, on the benefits of wearing a goaltender mask.
• Ron Tugnutt, on why goaltenders wear a throat collar today.