We tried. We made our best shot. Carolina had more than what we wanted to give up. |
We'd like to get a defenseman. You don't want to pay an exorbitant price for somebody for a couple months. You know you're going to overpay, but how much? |
We're all equal partners, everybody should have one chance at him. |
We've got to add it all up. Until he tells me he and the doctors have agreed he can play I'm not even going to worry about it. Whether we can spring enough money to get him into any games or not I don't know. I haven't even thought about it because we've been under the assumption he's not going to play. |
We've improved on defence immensely and we've improved our center ice immensely. What that translates to, I don't know. |
What they're going through now will just enhance what they will do next year. I think they will move along at the NHL pace a lot quicker because of what they're going through now. |
When we traded for Denis, we obviously liked him and wanted him on our club. We knew his contract was up at the end of this year and he was going to be unrestricted so we pursued him and we were able to come to a deal. |
You're not going to get a top four defenseman. And we never even thought about trading a goalie. |