I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.