It gets you hyper, more than anything. And how good is that on the ice, especially when you need to control the puck and be calm in certain situations?

They seem to be getting too many odd-man rushes lately, and good defense is going to lead to good offense and we just have to concentrate on that.

It is a lost opportunity for us to make our [playoff] position better. We can't come up with a sloppy effort like that, not this time of the year.

We just have to verbally keep talking about it. You can't have negative thoughts, they take up too much space and energy. Obviously, there is a lot of that going on and now we need the results. You have to stay positive talking with each other on an everyday basis. It will turn around, you have to believe that. We are too good of a team not to do that.

Nothing was broken (in my face). And the scar, hopefully, won't be too bad.

It was great back then because hockey in L.A. was the big thing. We would have Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford coming into the locker room. Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell were there all the time and all kinds of other celebrities. It was cool.