The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.

To be fair is not enough any more. We must be ferociously fair.

Those kids really play our system as well as anybody. By just playing the same way and Gilbert jumping on board, it really gave all three of them an opportunity to get the puck to the net.

It's going to be a very pivotal day for us. The threat still remains, but we continue to be very hopeful that we have a good solid plan in place.

What I expect is consistency of doing it right every day. Each day has to be a learning experience, but at the same time you have to be at the top of your game. That's tough to do, that's one of the things if you're going to be a major-league player the consistency factor of your daily approach has to be very good. That's what I expect him to improve on.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.