MikeHartman100

A guy said to me: Hey Hartman, it looks like you had a lot of shifts tonight. Shift right, shift left, shift right, shift left.

I always like playing against the Boston Bruins because you always knew you were in a game. I loved all of my teammates, but Mark Messier is the class of the class.

Funniest story: I was so excited to play my first game in Detroit in front of my home town, the players knew I was excited, so they told me to go out first and I looked like an ass skating by myself in front of 20,000 people.

Yes. Worst thing I have ever seen in my life.

To be honest with you, once of twice in my career I may have heard a racial remark, in the minors. Never in the NHL.

Eddie Olczyk in New York. He sat a lot in the press box, but he maintained a positive attitude, and was named Player's Player in 1994.