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.

Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

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 look forward to proving something to myself and others.