I still see us as having a real strong lineup. Definitely the teams around us in our conference have improved but I don’t think people should count us out yet.

It was Floyd’s fault. I didn’t think he played well enough for us to win.

Since the first day of training camp, he talked about us playing more like a playoff team and scoring playoff-style goals. It’s a theme we hear every day. Sometimes you don’t like the news the...

I don’t know what else you can do. We just threw everything at him. It’s one thing to get hit by pucks, but he was actually making some pretty good saves out there.

It’s a nice milestone. I don’t really care about most of them. But that’s a big build up.

We’ve played a lot of catch up hockey. That’s not good. Our start is very important. It’s time for us to come out with a lead and have them play that catch up hockey, which...

I really haven’t thought much about it. I’ve just enjoyed going out there and playing. It’s been enjoyable.

As much as we’re known for our goal scoring, we’re also very strong defensively. We can do the same to them and stifle their offence. If we have to win a game 1-0, we’ll win...

It is a sad day for hockey. It is a historic day, actually, … He was one of the greatest pure goal scorers of all-time. He helped me a lot when I went to St....

I don’t mind that people are counting us out. My first year here was 1997 and that’s when a lot of people thought the Red Wings had missed their window of opportunity and we won...

Things are coming together pretty good, I’m pretty optimistic about our game.

It will be a real test for us.

I haven’t heard anything about the betting being on hockey, and that’s a very important distinction. It sounds as if it’s college football and Super Bowl betting, stuff like that.

The hockey mentality is that when we’re challenged, we grow tighter together. One player or two might speak out and it might reflect (poorly) on the union, but 99 percent of the union will band...

He was down here between periods, talking to guys, observing the game, things like that. Still very much a part of our dressing room.

I think Mike Babcock is really going to be good for our team. It’s just what we needed at the right time.

You’re not going to get easy, open looks against this defense. Our goals were not pretty today. That’s the kind of hockey it’s going to be.

Mike has been stressing driving to the net, … Usually, he wants at least one guy driving to the net – and on that play we had all three. It was kind of a lucky...

The old days of having a two- or three-goal lead and just being able to lock on are over. You’re just going to have to keep on playing.

Sergei is a great player with world-class talent. Adding a player like that, I’m sure Columbus is hoping it’ll get a lot of their young guys excited.

That’s the way they’ve played all year.

Everyone is just doing their job. A lot of guys are putting up good numbers, but we don’t have any one guy carrying the team.

We came out and took over in the second period. They looked like a tired team.

We rolled four lines, we got a lot of gritty effort from a lot of different people at both ends of the ice. People talk about our ability to score, but we’ve also got a...

I see a lot of young players today who are supposed to be the future of the game and I shake my head. Guys who dive. Guy who don’t put the team first,

It’s not enough, obviously; it’s not enough. I’m not satisfied with it. Personally, I can say that I gave it everything I have, but I’m not satisfied with my results.

We killed those penalties off, and we gained a lot of momentum from that,

a guy who spoke his mind, a colorful guy.

I was surprised, but I knew he was having a bit of a tough adjustment here. But there are a lot of guys who decided to call it a career after the lockout. You can’t...

You don’t spend that much time cheering for guys on other teams in the playoffs that much. But Darren is a good guy and with all the things he’s been through, it was nice to...

[Many players are convinced that owners are attempting to divide the NHLPA. The owners’ latest proposal called for players making less than $800,000 to maintain their current salaries while players making more than $5 million...

Scoring a goal is special. Scoring a hat trick is special. I don’t think you ever get tired of it. You know, obviously, once you get the second one, you start a kind of run...

We were in such control, and then to give it away like that, it’s just embarrassing. It summed up the whole series. We were playing great hockey, playing great hockey, and then it was a...

I was just trying to get a piece of the goalie and let it squeeze in, … That’s just kind of a hope play. You’re lucky if it goes in.

I definitely missed the game and I was sorry to see it taken away from us,

No one can accuse me of self-interest in all this. You could make a case that a lot of the new rules don’t help my game out at all.

We didn’t get off to a great start. But from the 10-minute mark of the first period for the rest of the game, we played a pretty strong 50 minutes.

It was a unique situation, but the guys in the room took it as a challenge.

Everybody said this was going to be a tough series, so nobody expected us to win all four games. We knew we’d have to win a game in Edmonton.

A lot of the changes that are being made in the NHL, he should get a lot of credit for, … He’s been talking about these things for the last 10 years.

Our approach going in was they were a desperate team and if we could get of to a good start we could get them to press. It’s certainly a lot easier, a lot less taxing...

To come out and play the way we did and just have a letdown where all of a sudden, you know, they’re scoring at will, it just reflects how the whole series went. It’s embarrassing...

This is the way we started games earlier in the season, and we need to get back to that. When teams have to play us from behind and are forced to open things up, we’re...

I just try to stay ahead of my age. It means a lot. I think these are all things you reflect on at the end of the season and at the end of your career.

It’s been like that in every arena. Talking to other players, they say it’s the same thing. Fans love it. It’s the best way to decide a game. A simple way to do it. One...

Philadelphia is a great team, but I think we caught them a little tired.

I can handle it. I expected it … that a few players might make it personal with me.

I don’t think there was anyone on this team that didn’t think we’d have to win in Edmonton. The road is a place where we seem to play our best hockey, so it’s on to...

He’s a classy player.

Are guys going to get discovered? Sure, we’ve got over 700 players; we’re going to have the odd guy. But I’ve been playing for 18 years, and I’ve never heard a player talk about its...