Marc is a proven offensive player who excels at creating chances for his wingers. He bolstered our top line and will continue to play a pivotal role in our success.

His injury is healing, but the endurance part is not going so fast. He’s been sore after every game this year.

Once he could put his blueprint on the team, I knew they would be successful. Hopefully, we’ll catch up to them.

We’re really pleased to have Peter guiding our Olympic Team. Peter knows what it takes. He played on our 1988 Olympic team and came back as captain of the 1994 Olympic team. He’s coached our...

The new system doesn’t change much for the top-end players, because they are still going to get paid.

I’m disappointed, for sure. But you learn from it, and you find a way to move forward. … You lose every game by one goal … we’re going to take the positive from that, that...

Chris’ name was the first name mentioned by everyone. That just speaks volumes for how he’s respected in the game of hockey. He does everything at a high level. There was no other choice for...

It’s to everybody’s advantage if we could just wait until the playoffs are over or mostly over. That way you don’t want to affect any player’s ability with their team right now either positively or...

Jim enjoyed a successful career at Michigan State and we look forward to his continued development at the professional level. He has a great deal of potential which will be enhanced as he competes for...

We probably didn’t talk about Chris for the first two months and then on one of our (team evaluation) calls in early December, the name was brought up and everyone jumped on board with it....

We feel that Chris is not only a tremendous player, but also a terrific leader. For us to have success, Chris is going to have to be a big part of it.

I can’t say Peter is an up-and-coming coach because he is past that. He has proven himself. This is the next challenge for him.

We all talk about how we’ve been in a transition period. … We have a lot of good young players and a lot of guys coming in, and we can take the positives out of...

Ilya is an important part of our franchise and we share in our fans excitement that he is back with us for many seasons to come. He is one of the league’s elite players and...

You come here with higher expectations and it?s disappointing, no doubt, but we have to move on now.

Keith’s knowledge of the U.S. program will be a tremendous asset to us. We’re extremely pleased to have him as part of the staff.

He understood it. It’s part of the business. He wishes he could have done more. He?s hoping only for the best for all of us that are involved here. I thought he handled it very...

We still need someone else who is capable of playing 20 to 25 games a year.

If you’re left off this team, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad hockey player. It just means we have other good choices.

He will be in the mix. I think we have to take a look at him.

Peter has proven himself through the ranks as a coach. This is the next challenge for him. I think he’s very capable and ready to handle these duties. I always felt that international experience is...

We’ve put a lot pieces in place this summer. The franchise is in position to take the next big step. Ilya gives us a better chance to take that step to go even further.

In the back of my mind I said why call a bluff. Let’s do everything we can to sign him and we did.

We’re going to try to take the positive that we were in every game. We’re out of the tournament but certainly it’s not like it’s something we have to blow up and start over, because...

The process will begin when the season begins. This is an orientation camp, it’s not a tryout camp that we’re having.

I told him that 3 1/2 years with one franchise is pretty good in today’s world. Coaches tend to get fired as soon as teams lose a few games.

Certainly there are guys who would have to play their way off the team and others who have to play their way on to the team.

We’re going to do depth charts by team. Every team is going to have guys we’re going to watch, some teams are going to have more guys.

I always say the players pick this team, not us. You can’t have a team of 12 first-line NHL players. You need role players, checkers, penalty killers. You can’t just take the 12 most skilled...

He’s an excellent offensive player. He’s the catalyst on Colorado’s power play.

He’s the ultimate competitor. He’s capable of being a part of this team. He plays all the hard minutes in Detroit.

I’m more confident right now.

It’s very disappointing. Sometimes players in the emotion of the game don’t realize everything that goes on behind the scenes that need to happen to make these tournaments happen. As a player, I don’t expect...

We feel that with Bob’s leadership, professionalism and winning track record, he is the coach that will guide this team to success for many years. We are pleased to have him leading our team and...

It was the right thing to do at this time. I’m not nervous about it because I’m around our team so much and I know our team very well. I’ve seen every game this year...

This is an important first step to the process.

Emotionally, you have to believe that it’s going to be a lift for everybody. Regardless of what the contribution ends up being from Dany, I think it’s going to be a lift just to have...

We feel bad for Aaron that he’s unable to be part of the team. At the same time we’re extremely fortunate to be able to replace Aaron with someone the caliber of Bret Hedican.

It’s easy to sit up there and judge and say, what if we did this or that. What I came away with as being encouraging … was we had a lot of guys step up...

Not only do we feel we have a lot of speed and the grit, but enough scoring. We think our depth on defense is as good as it’s ever been. And when you get in...

We’re confident that it’ll be reported back to us within the next 24 hours. Once they OK it, they’ll just send us an e-mail immediately, and then the paperwork will follow in a few days....

I think sometimes experience can play in your favor also. Unfortunately, not everybody had the jump that he had. If they did, we’d probably be talking about something different now.

In signing Mike, we have added a solid, veteran goalie with more than 300 games of NHL experience to our club. This addition is a great complement to our goaltending corps and gives us the...

One of our scouts said he was the best amateur goalie he had seen in the past 10 years.

We want him in Atlanta, he wants to be in Atlanta. We’re going to do everything we can to make it happen. I’d say we have a difference [in monetary demands] right now.

We have 12 players that have never competed in the Olympics. That’s exciting because these guys have never been through this before and they’ll bring a lot of excitement to the game.

We made a decision back in December. We all wish we could make this decision today on your whole team because maybe some other positions would change also. Ryan has come back from his injury...

It’s not practical to have four goaltenders dressed for practice, so we felt it best to have Ryan remain at home and be available.

We’re extremely excited to add a player of Bobby’s caliber to our lineup. He’s a hard-nosed player who has enjoyed a distinguished career that includes valuable Stanley Cup championship experience. He is a veteran who...

We’re very excited, you know, and Ilya is the final piece we had to get done. I’ve said all along, ‘We’re going to score some goals.’ Watching some of what’s happened with the guys we’ve...