“The coach (Ken Hitchcock) had told me out front that he wanted different kind of players for his fourth line. Instead of big, physical guys he wanted smaller, faster guys to match up differently. All you can say in that situation is thanks for being honest about it. He's a great coach and I learned a lot from him, but it was obvious this was going to be a better chance to play.”
“But now we're a month into the season and there's no real advantage to having played last year. Over half the guys in the league did play somewhere. Everybody's caught up and it's business as usual.”
“You never want to see anybody get hurt, but I'm an emotional player. When I see one of my teammates get hurt, I'm going to send a message that we're not going to stand for it.”
