I had a meeting with Bob and he told me I wasn't playing. Then I came back in the afternoon and he told me I was going to suit up. Luckily, it went well for me.

This was a big game and big two points for us. Of course we were looking at Atlanta. We saw the score on the board there at the top. It was a crazy game.

Everything's positive in our dressing room. We don't think in terms of having lost today's game. We just look at the effort we put in during the second and third period, and tomorrow we have to do the same thing from the first minute.

It was four goals on four shots. A game like this sometimes is once in a career.

I was excited, but I thought he still might not take me because we have a lot of good players. And last year, I had a good season (third in scoring in the Czech league) but I still didn't go to the world championships.

I didn't expect it to be that strict. We'll see if they're going to do it. Maybe they'll only do it for the first month and then it will go back to what it used to be. But if it's going to be like this, every team has got to start working on not using your stick in practice because they're really calling everything. . . . It's too strict.