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.

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.

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

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

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