Chris Chelios is leaving the Detroit Red Wings after nearly 20 years, during which he made an impression on and off the ice.
His decision to move home to Chicago to be closer to his mom is laudatory. Chelios will be missed, though, not the least for how highly quotable he was. Here are some of the most memorable I can recall from talking with him over the years.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics, a TV reporter asked Chelios if having Peter Forsberg on the bench (he’d been injured) for the next game would be an advantage for Sweden?