It's my first spring as a defensive end. I'm just trying to get after it. We have some good coaches here and I'm still learning. I still have a long way to go before I get there but hopefully it will work out.

We had a pretty good day. Our saying on defense is hunt as pack. If one guy gets beat, we have ten other guys backing him up. I think we did a good job today.

The defense likes to get athletes out there and I like to think I'm one. I wanted to try defensive end. We're kind of short there. We're seeing how it goes.

With the stakes we are trying to aspire to it is not a job for rookies. We feel we have not taken guys who are over the hill either - which has been the case in the past. We've got guys at the peak of their careers.

We're trying to bring our hockey back to what you used to watch on TV as a young kid - moving the puck, making fancy plays.

I kept trying to think of what I had done to be called to the principal's office,