I just wanted to skate a little bit. Nothing too strenuous. More just to keep feeling the puck.

He's not going to do anything flashy. He's not going to skate the puck end to end. He's not going to have 15 hits a game, because his body just won't allow him to do that. But he knows how to play within his means.

It's a weird thing, it seems I play every year on my birthday, but I always lose.

Not having Pavel leaves a big hole on this team, but we have a lot of guys who can fill that hole.

In baseball, they come back and start over the next day after a rainout, even if it's 4-0. But this is the way the NHL wanted it.

The young teams that get down a couple of goals, they try to force things to make things happen. Where maturity knows you're going to get it back in the next two minutes.