There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

I might have practiced stick-handling with my head up a bit more.

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

I've been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game of the Winter Classic weekend.

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

When you ask for the house, car, cat, dog and all the fish when you're dealing with a player who's got questions about his health, no GM in his right mind is going to say yes and offer to clean the aquarium, too.

People on the streets are ready for hockey.