Jeff has all of the ingredients of the type of player we are looking for, ... He brings elite speed, some valuable championship experience and is a powerful skater who goes to the net. |
Jeff is worthy of this for a lot of reasons, ... He has the maturity, the talent, the experience, the leadership. But he has a neat perspective of this club that not many people with this club, or any club would have about their team. |
Just to have hockey in our building is going to be terrific for all of us. The game's back, it's better than it was and we're all looking forward to a full year of hockey. |
Mike will be back, ... He had an excellent camp, and we anticipate that this will be a short-term move. |
Our forward group is in good shape and our goaltending is in good shape, but we have question marks on defense, ... We'll play some of our young players back there and see how they do. We have five or six young guys we are going to give opportunities to and we'll see who is able to grab those spots. |
Our forward group is in good shape and our goaltending is in good shape, but we have question marks on defense. We'll play some of our young players back there and see how they do. We have five or six young guys we are going to give opportunities to and we'll see who is able to grab those spots. |
Our strategy is to spend money on the right player at the right price, |
Overall, I think all the things that have been done to the game are good for the game, |
Probably with the rest of the draft we'll just take the best player that's available when we get to each pick. |
Simply put, he's one of the finest athletes and gentlemen that you can find on any team in any sport. This sends a great message to his teammates and our fan base. The message is: We're going to do this right, we're going to build it right and get the right people here. Certainly Olie is that kind of person. |
Some teams are going to regret [the long-term free agent] deals in a few years. The salary cap could go down next year. That would put some teams in quite a bind. We're committed to playing our young players next season. |
The thing we have to understand is that Alex was in the homeland, playing for a professional team over there, he was in training camp and was earning a substantial amount of money, |
The thing we have to understand is that Alex was in the homeland, playing for a professional team over there, he was in training camp and was earning a substantial amount of money. So the decision was not easy for him. But he wanted to come to Washington. He's a terrific young man who is going to be here for a long time. |
We could use some more goals. We like the way the defense has played, and the goaltending has been good. We think we have some young players who can score for us. We'll see what the second half brings. |
We didn't expect him to be this good this early. We were hoping he could play as much as the veterans, but he has carried this team on offense. |