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.

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...

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...

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 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 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’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...

For me, this is a showcase event for our sport. You get the 50 best players in the world all under one roof. We don’t get to see the players in the [Western Conference] very...

The nice thing about our team is that our depth is so much better. And our goaltending will be strong.

We had a lot of players playing very well. We said all along that we were going to base this team on not so much what was the history of players … but how guys...

I don’t know exactly how it happened. From what I’ve been told, he caught a rut or something and parts of his knee cap shattered off. His doctor says it’s the kind of accident you...

We’ll be in the playoffs. If you want to write: ‘Guarantee,’ I have no problem with that.

If we continue to play as well as we did against Slovakia, we are going to be fine.

We did a rating system all year and these guys deserved to be here. It wasn’t that Brian was a bad player or anything than that it was just that these guys performed better and...

We have all of the best American scorers here. But it’s hard to score here. Look at the low scores. The defense and goaltending is so good here.

The timing of the hit is bad when you have two minutes left in the game you’re losing 6-0. And the hit, he was going to take the guy out, and [Ranger] slowed up or...

We have lots of priorities and things to do. Marc had a good year. We have to sit down and analyze all this.

Marian is arguably one of the top players in the world and is always a scoring threat. He consistently places among the league leaders in all offensive categories and holds several of Ottawa’s team records....

We are extremely pleased with our team and feel very confident that we’ve put a solid group together that will best put us in a position to compete for the gold medal. The selection process...

The selection process was an extremely difficult one and that’s a terrific statement for hockey in the United States. It means our talent pool in this country continues to grow.

But I did think we would score more than we are now. We’ve gotten chances to score, and we haven’t buried them. And you don’t get as many scoring chances in this type of tournament...

We have a lot of good, young players at USA Hockey and a lot of guys coming. We can take the positives out of this game and out of the whole tournament.

We did talk about Ryan Miller quite a bit. The other three guys are all starting goalies in the NHL right now.

Anytime you’re talking about the knee and you have surgery, it’s not good.

We’re pleased to have someone with Mike’s knowledge and passion on board to assist in guiding our Olympic team.

He has rehabbed very well so far and if it continues the way it’s going we’re anticipating maybe practicing in the next four to five weeks with the team. And then we’re probably still two...

We feel that Keith will be ready. He’s the type of player we need to compete and win the gold medal.

Ultimately it won’t be systems that win or lose the hockey games, it will be how hard those players play within the system.

He’s going to play the first game. If you go back to Jan.1, he’s been the best goalie.

We’re excited about where this franchise is headed. I’m very confident in the group of players we’ve put together. We’re taking it one step at a time. But this franchise is poised to take the...

We’re not having one meeting about who has been the best player here or anything like that. That’s not the purpose of it.

His fast start has been very important with Dany out. We needed guys to step forward, and Ilya certainly has done that. He’s taken this team on his back. He wants to be the go-go...

What I’m going to say to the guys on the first day of meeting is that basically they are going to pick this Olympic team.

The orientation camp will be a terrific opportunity for our staff to come together with the candidates for our Olympic team to assess the potential makeup of our squad. It will not be a tryout...

Some guys show up when you tell them to, like two hours before a game or a practice, but Chelios will be there three or four hours earlier than that. I wish all players in...

The oldest guy in the tournament was one of our better players. Unfortunately not everybody had the jump that he had. If we did, we’d probably be talking about something differently.

I hope he plays all the games and I hope we’re paying the whole thing.