It (stinks) because he's such a great player and you want him all the time. But if you're ever going to lose a guy, now's the time of the season when you want him to be healing up.

I think it's in the back of everyone's head. But at the same time, I think it's great. There's nothing to save [ourselves] for. We've got one year before everything gets shaken up, and it's kind of fun. It's like a whole-year playoffs because you don't know what's going to happen after.

Joe really loosened us up. We were a bit tight. Joe has been carrying us on his back for the last two or three months. He's been phenomenal. We needed a goal, he went down and did what he always does and popped it in for us.

I think Tony's a great tool for Joel because he's already been with the team. He knows a lot of the players and what we're capable of. I think it's a big advantage.

I think maybe there's more bad blood now between us and Vancouver than with Detroit. I think now with us and Detroit, it's just a rivalry between two good teams. Most of that bad blood was a long time ago. We didn't have anybody out there tonight who was a part of it in '96.

As a forward now, you have to start thinking. As a defenseman, you turn your brain off for 60 minutes and play the game. But now that he has to play a smart position, he's done a pretty good job with the transition.