Each of those players bring skill and experience that should help us this season. We will count on them to give us an edge in play during transition play.

It will help us to look at our skill players, also.

Nothing less than qualifying for the postseason will satisfy us. We have had disappointing endings the past two years when we just missed moving on.

Having Pavel will help us. The new rules are going to help players with skill, like Pavel.

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Valeri Bure brings a package of speed, offensive skill and experience to our lineup. We believe that he will also be a player who will really benefit from the new rule changes, and he will be a welcome addition to our power play.