My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.

My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.

You're a domestic man, David. You feel hundreds of small affections all the time. They haunt every friendly pillow and comfortable chair like household gods. Together they add up to a great love, big enough to ignore this silly man who's hanging around your wife's skirts.

No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.

It's definitely a tough stretch for us. All we can do is play it. We just want to do the best we can. We want to focus on taking things away from teams and excelling at that.

I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.