Goaltender Chris Osgood was once asked what he thought about when he saw Wayne Gretzky approaching on a breakaway. His reply? "I've told you guys before, goalies don't think."

["Goaltenders are three sandwiches shy of a picnic," Jim Taylor once remarked. "From the moment primitive man lurched erect, he survived on the principle that when something hard and potentially lethal comes toward you at great velocity, get the hell out of it's path."]