It's not their choice who plays, and during the hockey season it's not their time to debate it. If one guy wins, the whole team wins. If one guy loses, the whole team loses. Their job is to support one another and support the team. |
Jon was one of 14 forwards that we have now, and was the guy who probably was not going to play very much. It did not make any sense for us to carry his contract on our payroll. |
Losing Kapanen for at least 2 months leaves us shallow at forward, so we thought that getting a player like Savage would really help our team. |
Losing Kapanen for at least two months leaves us shallow at forward, so we thought that getting a player like Savage would really help our team. |
No, never. Hitch, he's a pain in the butt on injuries. A guy gets a shoulder injury that's going to take about eight to 10 weeks, when it gets to be about seven weeks, he goes, 'Is he going to be ready tomorrow?' He lives on hope that the players are going to get back quicker. But we never allow that, neither do the doctors. |
Once we signed Forsberg, we knew we had to make a trade. |
Peter Forsberg is one of the best players in the game. |
Peter Forsberg is one of the best players in the game. We signed him knowing that he puts us over the ($39 million) cap, and we will have to trade some guys. |
Peter Forsberg is one of the best players in the game. We signed him knowing that he puts us over the cap and we will have to trade some guys now. |
Sami last week had a collision with one of our players when they were fooling around. He hurt his shoulder and had an MRI performed on him yesterday. The results were that he's got a slap tear, they call that, and a partial thickness tear of his rotator cuff. He'll have surgery early next week, and will miss approximately 10 weeks from the date of surgery. |
Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented. |
The contract becomes available if we're able to and want to find another player. |
The doctors have talked to Keith about it and he's got all the information. It's horrible, but there's really nothing he or we can do about it. |
The doctors told me he came real close [to passing], but they didn't want to take any chances. |
The way it was going, it wasn't good for Claude and it wasn't good for the team, either. His conditioning was deteriorating. You never knew who was going in or out of the lineup. This way he's getting help and when he's done, he'll be back. |