It's very hard choices. It's not as if somebody is not capable or not getting the job done. But at the end of the day, it makes us a better team.

He's had a very good year. The number he cares most about is wins. The other numbers are inconsequential. That's a credit to him; 38 wins is a lot of wins.

You have to fine-tune. We try to go into each game and say, 'Here's a focal point.' We want to make sure going in that things are right.

I feel much better about our team than I did two days ago. The recognition of how hard this is going to be is a positive thing for our team. It takes guys like Brenden Morrow and [Jason] Arnott and [Jere] Lehtinen to drag everybody into it.

He can be a horse. He's so big and so strong. When he gets a head of steam, he's hard to defend. He's using all the tools he has.

This is the end of a real tough spot in our schedule. We managed to pluck a lot of points from this part of the schedule.