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,...