I think it's important for us to not overstate what we know, ... We want to be concrete about what we know and what we don't know.

(The penalty kill) been huge for us. The guys have been coming up so big, especially on the 5-on-3 (opportunities).

I think what he is trying to do is to send a message to us here that he sees the challenges we are dealing with, I suspect in the future that he will choose his analogies a little more carefully.

This is still a good challenge for us.

It really helps us get on the radar screen of the professional people who work with companies to place them in other areas of the country. Now, Rochester ranks 35 in the entire country. We are very pleased about that.

It's good for Erik. It's not so good for us. We'd love to have him this weekend. But hey, this is what it's all about. Erik's a guy who's right there. If anybody can make it up there I think he's one of the guys that can.