‘“There is one situation I will never forget in my life,” Hasek said. “That is when we won in the Olympics in 1998 with the Czech national team and we came here back to Buffalo. I knew that people were maybe cheering for us, but this was something I would never, ever expect, to come to the airport and there were thousands of people waiting for me and Richard Smehlik. There were people in our neighborhood when I was coming home. Then the special evening the next day with the Toronto Maple Leafs when they sang the Czech national anthem.”‘