If you are not playing for the Stanley Cup at the end of the year, what's the point? If you don't win, you may as well not make the playoffs, because you are loser just like everyone else.
I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
War of attrition, war of wills. That's what the Stanley Cup playoffs are - more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.
That's what you need to win a Cup and go far in the playoffs, you need every guy to be accountable in all areas of the ice.
Every time when the season starts you have a goal, right? To reach the playoffs. You reach the playoffs, and then the next step is to win the Cup.
Anyone who plays in the NHL dreams to win the Stanley Cup and I dreamed as well to be one of them and raise the cup in Washington and bring it home to Moscow and celebrate with my friends and my parents.
My only goal is to win the Stanley Cup and do what I have to to win that.
Stanley Cup winners don’t hand back the Stanley Cup.
I don't just want to make the playoffs or get to the first or second round. When I compete or make it to the playoffs, I expect to win every time.
To win the Stanley Cup is such a process and it takes everybody on board.
Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.
The most important thing for us is winning the Stanley Cup and I want to win.
It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever.
That's what they hired me to do in Washington, change a little bit of the culture, try to win a Stanley Cup.