In hockey towns, like Boston is, the true fans are always going to come out. No question about it.

I think the true fans will come out. It's the casual fans who might take a little while. But the true fans will always come out and watch the game. They miss it just as much as the players miss it. For a championship city, it's pretty tough because the Red Sox [are champions] and the Patriots won [three of the last four Super Bowls], and maybe it's our turn.

This place has been very good to our team. A bunch of our fans cannot get tickets in Boston. For them to come down on a weekend and take part in this, that says a lot.

I know what's going on in Boston. I know fans are upset and I'm sorry.

It's noticeable. It's 40,000 [fans] in Boston, standing up in the first inning with two strikes,

We don't want to be annoying fans. We know that bothers Boston players when there is no place they can go without running into a fan.