It’s something I definitely want to build on.

We had the master of the manipulators, playing for Scotty (Bowman) . We’ve seen all the tricks before. The game is going to be played on the ice. Not talking or stirring things up.

Cujo is the reason we won the game,

We’ve got to get better. We haven’t done it for a couple of games, and we’ve got to find a way real quick.

We feel good about what we’ve accomplished so far, but there’s still a lot of the season left.

He’s a guy that can dominate a game. He just makes players around him that much better. He’s a guy that can score, and he’s a very gifted passer as well. The best thing to...

I don’t think we’re there yet. I think this is really the first time at training camp that it’s meant as much as it has in a lot of years for this team. Not only...

He’s such a great guy and he wants to be there for everybody and that’s what made him so popular in Detroit.

You put Pavel in there, it puts us almost to the upper echelon to compete with the high-end teams.

It was an ugly type of goal and Brad had a cheeky grin on his face, but it was what we needed.

A lot of players have changed. I know (Colorado) doesn’t have a lot of players left from the ’90s teams. A lot of what happened was a long time ago. I guess it’s a little...

It’s going to really open up the game, make the game a lot more entertaining. Training camp this year is going to be more important than previous camps and the exhibition games are going to...

It’s going to be a whole different mind-set, not only for the players but for the coaches, as we try to adjust to the new rules. Hopefully, for the sake of the game and for...

We’re a veteran hockey club, we know better than that. We hung Manny out to dry.

It ‘´s going to be a fun game for guys who like to get out there and skate, … So I ‘´m just going to go out there and do what I can.

The last couple games we were firing goose eggs, and that’s something you don’t want to do going into your elimination game.

I don’t think they’re going to have any choice but to open it up with the way the rules are,

For us, our team is a team that has a lot of pride and I don’t think we’ve really been known as divers. To get in a war of words with him, to me is...

Yeah, now we’re on the scoreboard watching. We’re realizing there’s probably about four or five teams that are going to keep flip-flopping from here right on up to the end of the regular season. For...

The first power play they were snapping it around pretty good. They kind of got some things going.

It felt good to be back out there. It seems there’s going to be a lot of specialty teams this year. I think that’s what everybody’s kind of talking about right now, the amount of...

Guys that can skate are going to enjoy this.

Ozzie (Osgood) made some good stops tonight and we had a lot of jump.

It went well. It was a lot of fun.

Chris Simon just sucker-punched somebody in the face!

It feels good. I think everyone is real excited about it. We weren’t able to do something everyone is passionate about and loves doing.

I laugh at them. I think they’re pretty funny, but that’s about the extent of it.

You have to really pay attention. He expects us to be very businesslike, that’s how he is, and we have to respond to that. It’s going to be a little bit of an adjustment.

For me, 03-04 … was it 03-04 or 02-03?

Either way we’re going out west. There’s nothing easy about that. First round, right off the hop, it’s pretty demanding travel-wise and that’s something that we realize but that’s just unfortunate, us being in the...

Cheli! The old fart. That’s why he keeps playing — he wanted that title.

So you realize that our division just got that much tougher with the upgrades that all these teams made. They’ve turned themselves into some great hockey clubs.

Out of all the teams in our division, we were the least active because of how much money we had tied into players,

That’s something we can’t control. Columbus had one of the best records in the league the second half of the season. We feel good about what we accomplished during the regular season. Now everything counts,...

The last three or four years I’ve played all three positions and I’ve enjoyed that. It’s a different game, a different look, and it’s an opportunity, hopefully, I can take advantage of and get things...

Right up until I got that phone call I wasn’t sure. And when I hadn’t heard anything by about 4 o’clock (Wednesday) afternoon, I thought, ‘Well, I didn’t make it.’ But then right after that...

Why are you sitting next to me? Get out of here.

Here at the Joe, guys are getting used to the speed and the body positioning. Teams that can skate and have a good defence will be a step ahead. You won’t have any choice to...

It seems there’s going to be a lot of specialty teams. Basically, how are we going to adjust to it is what it comes down to.

Obviously, we would love to have him in our lineup,

We’ve done a lot of good things but a complete game, we haven’t done that. That’s something that bothers everybody in this dressing room.

Everyone’s going in on a whole new learning curve, … Figuring out what the rules are going to be, what the roles are going to be with the new coach, and that’s all going to...

It was huge. Some pretty important power plays were killed.

Tomorrow night is the start of four games in five nights, and we have to prepare ourselves for that.

Those two kids are special. And the new rules are going to be exciting for them.

Not only were we not able to get Pavel signed, we also had to buy out Darren McCarty , Ray Whitney and Derian Hatcher ,

He and I are struggling right now.

It’s definitely affected us a lot, … It kind of handcuffed Detroit. We had a lot of money tied into a lot of players. (General manager Ken Holland) had to step up and make some...

I don’t think anyone realized the extent of how deep it went. It’s tough when you see a friend and former teammate go through something like that.

Actually it was easier than you’d think. We were the guys who had the opportunity to play for something. Only 26 players on the eight teams had that chance. We would wake up in the...