After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

I hated everybody I played against, and they hated me. That's the way hockey should be played.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

The beauty of being co-founders with your spouse is that we run our business and family together.

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.