Chicago Blackhawks announce a brand new captain today in hockey history

"Quite honestly, I wasn't ready to be captain of Montreal. It affected my game, my personality. I just wasn't ready. And we split the captaincy with Guy Carbonneau, which was great, because otherwise I would have had a real bad time. Carbo was a great friend of mine and he could handle the French speaking and all that. So we rotated as captain.

But still, I wasn't performing like I should have and I wasn't mature enough."

"[General Manager] Serge Savard was my biggest supporter in Montreal, and I thank my lucky stars because he told me it was between going to Winnipeg or Chicago."

"I get the call from Serge. And the minute I get off the phone from Serge Savard, I call (my mom) and my dad up, they were in San Diego, and I said, 'Let's go, you're moving back to Chicago.' So within months, we moved everybody back - my sisters, everybody came back from San Diego."

"That first game, I'll never forget, I had a goal, assist and a fight. Growing up in Chicago, being at the Hawks games, I was like a lion coming out of a cage. And it was too good to be true the way things went my first year there.

It's one thing to play in the NHL, but then to play in your hometown also, where all your friends, your coaches, everybody - your school teachers The fans, they've been treating me unbelievably. I'm one of those and they showed me that."

"It meant everything to my dad to wear the 'C' for the Blackhawks as a hometown kid. To this day, he's had so much success, but it absolutely kills him that he never won the Cup here and lost to Pittsburgh in the final. He is like, 'You don't know how much that hurt me.'"