Dave Checketts Quotes

You would never rule anything out that way, but I have to tell you, our total attention and focus is very much on establishing the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League. - Dave Checketts

When you think about teams, one of the most critical things is stability. I want to just bring stability to this situation. The new owner's in place, a long-term owner, committed owner. - Dave Checketts

When we traded him, I would say that was probably a lose-lose. It didn't work out well for anyone. - Dave Checketts

What's been done in the past I really have no control over. Frankly, I like the fact that we have kind of a blank canvas with some young talent, some very good draft picks and a chance to really build. - Dave Checketts

We've really battled through this. Now we have a change to build Soccer City USA. - Dave Checketts

We've got to get ready for that draft. It's real important. I want to understand what's done. If we have one of the first three picks, we could come away with a very good player. - Dave Checketts

We're not pursuing any other opportunities. It's not on our radar. - Dave Checketts

These things don't work unless there's some public-private partnership there. The notion that any of this money is just lining our pockets is just erroneous. They're (the county and city) taking over the land, just the way they do with any other private enterprise. . . . This just happens to be more public because it's private sports. - Dave Checketts

The people here are very passionate about sport if it's presented in the right way. They want to be major league and they want to win. Two very simple things. - Dave Checketts

The good news for St. Louis fans is I understand what we did right in New York with the Rangers, and I also understand what we did wrong. Where we started to go wrong with the Rangers is when we got away from a drafting, developing, being careful about a team chemistry approach with an owner that just wanted us to buy every big name in the business. That doesn't work in hockey. I knew it then, I especially know it now. - Dave Checketts

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