According to everybody else he has a lot to prove. And there has been a lot on his mind but he's focused on hockey. He's going to be OK.

He (Richards) had his done and he's back to 100 per cent. His surgery lasted an hour and a bit so his surgery was a little longer and he had a little more tearing in his, but he's back to where he doesn't really think about it.

Dr. Meyers is a specialist in this area and he determined right away what the problem was. I was about two seconds from boarding a plane back to Vancouver to spend a couple of days thinking about it, but I thought this was the best way to go.

He flat-out said you are going to be fine. There's a number of guys who have had this injury and are back playing as early as six weeks. I'm not saying I'm going to be back in six weeks ... I can't do much within three weeks. After that I will rehab. I'm a determined guy and I'm already starting to feel better. I don't have that initial pain I had before.

I didn't know if it was going to count. I was pushed into the net, but it wasn't dislodged. I saw the puck go by me. I asked Matt after and he said it went in before it came off.

We were hovering near the bottom and it was nice to rebound and get some big ones. We needed to get more pucks to the net instead of making that one extra pass. Establish a shot first and that will open things up.