It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.

As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.

If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.

Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.