Our players will be ready to go out there and compete, ... We always tell them you can't change the past, you can change the future. And that's what this is all about. If we go out there and win this game nobody is going to remember that we lost the first three.

Margita Thompson has said all kinds of things in the past that have proven not to be true, ... I will continue to make my request to meet with the governor and explain why there are millions of people who are suffering under the inequality of the current law and who need this bill to be signed.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

That match will be a good indication of where we are. Hopefully, the matches this past weekend prepared us for that competition.

Whenever you change technology, there will always be select individuals who will be resistant. When ATMs were introduced, people were saying, 'I don't want to get my money out of that box.' Now, hardly anyone walks into a bank.

More than anything, it just validates to the guys everything that they've been doing for the past three years. All the off-ice workouts, all the early-morning practices, everything like that. It really puts a value on it now, and I'm proud as heck of them. They deserve it.