Fighting is necessary in hockey. But if you fight, you have to choose your partner carefully. If you're an experienced player and you want to fight, you can't choose a player who has never fought in his life.

Girls, where are you? I can't find you.

I think I must play how I can, that's all. And if I play my best I'll be happy. It doesn't matter because NHL is the best league in the world and we have great players so whoever the coach puts me with is the best. The coach knows best.

I played basketball and soccer but they are very different games, obviously. However, playing any kind of sport always helps you develop physically.

Everybody is jumping up and down back in Russia. Probably lots of vodka, too.

We're going to play our game and we're going to come back and we're going to play Montreal or Tampa.

Hockey is my life and money is money. If you think about money, you stop playing hockey.