He was pretty cool. A lot of them didn’t grow up with hockey, but they might check it out now.

All I asked for was to have some time to confer with my teammates before casting a vote,

We (Leafs players) visit hospitals and schools back home, and you look forward to that experience.

I’ve now had an opportunity to speak to my teammates. We sat down last night, had a long conversation and we’ll make an educated vote on where our team stands and that’s how it should...

We played pretty well in the first but the two chances we gave them they happened to score, … We stayed patient and wound up tying it in the second.

Ninety percent of the guys do (feel that way), I guess, so we’ll see.

I don’t watch anything during the year. Don’t read the paper, don’t watch any sports news, nothing. I don’t need to hear anything.

Their power play is deadly. Jagr put on a clinic out there.

We weren’t allowed to vote on that (in December). Now they do want my vote and I couldn’t even discuss the situation with the 30 guys in our dressing room,

It wasn’t our prettiest game. It’s an ugly win, but we’ll take it.

That’s when good things are going to happen. Guys were going to the net hard.

It was a big win for us, that’s what matters,

We know it’s going to be tough. Not too many teams go out there and win too many games. We’d like to keep this thing rolling but it won’t be easy.

There’s some stuff going on, I guess, … It’s been a long year for all of us, especially the guys involved in all this stuff, and we’d just like to put it all behind us,...

When things aren’t going good around here, you’ve got to switch things up, mix the D up a little, maybe tighten things up a little back there and see if it works.

I don’t want to create waves. There was a vote, it passed, and now I just want to move ahead and play hockey.

We worked a lot harder tonight. The other night, we just plain and simple got outworked and that shouldn’t happen. We were pretty unlucky to be down 2-0 after one. We stuck to the program,...

If I wanted to shoot the puck at him, I would have shot it at him. I shot the puck around the boards and he was about two feet off the boards, but whatever.

You have to be able to score on the power play but we do it as a unit.

It’s certainly a bonus, certainly not something I was expecting. Obviously everybody wants to go over there and play. It’s great to be included and it’s special to even be named to the team, but...

It’s something you can’t control. I love it here, I want to be here, as does everyone in this room. But you can’t worry about it. It’s the same thing every time the trade deadline...

It makes my job a lot easier playing with a guy like Tomas, … He’s an All-Star by all means. He’s a guy who can skate the puck — he does a great job and...

Ninety per cent of the guys do (think Saskin is the right man for the job). So we’ll see.

It’s either tomorrow (Monday) or Tuesday.

It’ll be a dead issue I’m sure in a few days.

He never even looks,

It’s nice to get the win before starting on a long road trip.

We take it in stride. It’s Toronto. All the fans want to win. They haven’t had a Cup in years and we want to win too.

He just lays it there and it’s always in the right place and always just the right speed. I’m very fortunate to have a partner like him.

He likes to play physical, as you all saw, … Obviously, you don’t want to see anyone get hurt, but the kid is trying to win a job. You can’t hold him accountable for finishing...

Lets face it, we need all the points we can get, so these two game are important … we’d like to finish up strong before the break.

Tomas is a great player and one of our core guys. I think it was a great move to lock him up.

We had 1:15 … 1:20, so we knew, ‘Let’s be patient here, let’s wait for the right play’ … We moved the puck around and got lucky. I got a clear shot.

You guys (the media) put a lot of pressure on him, that’s for sure. But he’s going to be a good player in this league for a long time.

They’re a battling team. They’ve got a gritty coach. They played hard. They try to play spoiler or whatever. Guys never quit in this league. It’s never a given that you’re going to get two...

If you guys didn’t mention it, I wouldn’t have known. I have a one-in-81 chance. Obviously, everyone would love to go, but it’s not possible.

We knew,

We’ve had a tough couple of weeks here. We needed a win here to get our confidence going. We can have fun over Christmas now.

Obviously it is a failure for everyone. It’s on all of us. I’m sure John (GM Ferguson) will figure out what needs to be done and tweak it as he sees necessary. But it’s a...

He’s the biggest thing that has happened to Canadian hockey, and for him to get his name trashed through mud is pretty sad. But he will come out clean on the other side.

He always does. Good players can do that, and he’s one of those guys.

The season is a failure. You only get so many opportunities to play for a Stanley Cup.

It’s going to be exciting. It’s certainly a bonus. I wasn’t expecting it. Obviously, everyone wants to go over there and play. With the chance to go over there, I’m a lot more excited. It’s...

I could always shoot it hard,

(The Olympics) are not even on my mind,

It has no bearing on what we do here. You feel for him, getting his name trashed.

There were a lot of comments and a lot of things were said, and the only thing I asked for was time to confer with my teammates on it, … But obviously a vote was...

We’ve got to do a better job on the power-play. Those are key situations and when we don’t produce we don’t win.

You have to score on those opportunities. We didn’t and it came back to haunt us.

That’s embarrassing. If he needs a foursome, he should call us. After all, he’ll never see the ice once the playoffs start.