I don't want to say how old I was when I started watching Bourque, because it might offend him.

We've gone into tough buildings and won, or at least gone to overtime. It's a credit to our system and the way we play. That's what you want to establish as a road team. We can't get rattled.

I don't know what's going to happen here. I'm not the general manager . . . I'm not the owner. I'm just a player that has to do his job to help his team win and whatever happens, happens. We as players can only control one thing: how we perform on the ice. We need more guys worried about that than worried about other things right now. That's probably (why the Blues are in) the situation we're in right now, because people worry about that.

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

You can't replace guys like that. We put ourselves in this situation where they're going to get rid of a lot of the old guys who don't have contracts next year and try to rebuild.

I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play-she had a seven- or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.