This is an awesome opportunity. This is my first trip to Europe, and I get to play hockey. I expect it to be less physical, and we?re going to have to work on maintaining possession.

My job is to score the goals. I just took it around and tried to get it on net, and fortunately it went in.

We knew we had a couple of tough losses and we knew we had to come out hard and get some shots on net. Tyler and I stepped it up. We?re the leaders of this team and we know how to step it up. We just told the team they needed to pick it up and they did. It?s a big win.

I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

We had an opportunity to add a high-end premium arm to the system. We felt he was close enough to the big leagues to warrant that type of contract. We were well aware of what type of commitment it would take before we took him.

She likes to come in [to the net], dictate and make big shots. I gave her the opportunity to play like that.