November 2010
20 posts
Shawn Thornton: Did you get your apple I tried to smuggle for you?
Tyler Seguin: Nope.
Shawn: I tried.
Tyler: You owe me dinner.
Shawn: I owe you dinner? You make a lot more than me, I think.
“I’m here for my portrait. I know you guys want to put my picture up next.”
– Shawn Thornton, to Verizon Center workers hanging a giant photo of Alex Ovechkin
“There are no families on our trips — this is not baseball.”
– Shawn Thornton, on whether the players’ wives accompany them on the Florida trip
“I didn’t like standing down on one end of the ice just talking to myself....”
– Shawn Thornton, on playing goalie as a little kid
“He has nothing to do with it- so leave him alone… or I’ll come deal...”
– Shawn Thornton, on people giving Gregory Campbell a hard time about his father Colin
“Obviously he has a hard time keeping up with me out there, with my blazing...”
– Shawn Thornton, on Tyler Seguin
“I wanted to make sure there wasn’t too much rust in the pipes.”
– Shawn Thornton, on his decision to oblige Hordichuk in a fight
Toucher & Rich: Have you seen the website "Things Shawn Thornton Has Said"?
Shawn Thornton: Yeah, I have. I'm trying to figure out who that is. Some of the stuff I've just said in the [dressing] room, with people around, kind of off the record. So it's got to be someone in the room.
T&R: Oh, realllly. Interesting.
ST: I don't think all of it's been on the record or maybe I just say too much sh.... stupid stuff. I have a feeling it's someone in the room. I think it's pretty funny, though.
T&R: Who is the guy with the wherewithal to put together a website and post it, in the room?
ST: I don't know. He's being very anonymous right now, whoever it may be.
T&R: So there's a player in the room...
ST: It's not me. Not sure a player could ever figure out how to put a website together. We're not that smart.
“All Finnish players look like women - that’s why they’re so angry.”
– Shawn Thornton
“I cannot comment on what words were uttered, due to suspension factors - but I...”
– Shawn Thornton, on barking at old pal Vladimir Sobotka from the bench
“I think you have to check the stats because most of them are game-winners if...”
– Shawn Thornton, on his three goals scored
“I came in and saw a gray jersey and said ‘Great, I’ll talk to my new linemates...”
– Shawn Thornton, on switching lines
“Dennis looks OK. [to Dennis] You all right, bud? Yeah he seems to be all right.”
– Shawn Thornton, on whether he’d go after Chris Neil for his hit on Dennis Seidenberg
“Mark Stuart? That guy’s a manchild, I don’t think he’s afraid...”
– Shawn Thornton
“We can’t stand them, and they can’t stand us — and it’s...”
– Shawn Thornton, on the Canadiens
“Forty-seven more to go.”
– Shawn Thornton, on scoring his 3rd goal on the season
“I don’t think there’s a right way to answer that. If I say the slate is...”
– Shawn Thornton, on whether the slate is clean with Matt Cooke
“I told him to stop being a… actually, I probably can’t say that word...”
– Shawn Thornton, on texting Tim Thomas when Tim won the Vezina
“I’m not very happy with little Marchand scoring goals when I’m not...”
– Shawn Thornton, on Brad Marchand’s first career NHL goal
“I’m ignoring him until he gets another shutout.”
– Shawn Thornton, on punishing Tim Thomas for giving up 2 goals 