The chemistry on the team is great, and so far it's been fun for everybody here. |
The fans were good. We didn't help too much. |
The games to me is practice. I don't need days off. I know my body very well. If I need a day off, I'll skip the morning skate. |
The New York Rangers don't have much experience in the playoffs the last years but the players are different. You have to forget about what happened the day before and think forward, never be too satisfied and never be too angry. |
The Rangers could spend $80 million before, now they cannot do it, ... Every time they make a move, it's got to be a good move and make sense. Before, because we could spend money here in New York, you had to get somebody to satisfy the fans and sometimes too much is not good. You need a lot of hard-working guys and every superstar needs their ice time to be that superstar. If you've got so many of them, somebody is going to get left behind. |
The team decided after one month after I came here they were going to sell everybody. After the trade deadline, there were only two players left on the team from when I came here. |
The way I feel right now, he may have a day off tomorrow. He will have an easy day. But that's okay. I might be back next week. |
The way I look at it, home-ice advantage or no home-ice advantage, if we're going to play like that in the playoffs, we're going to lose anyway. |
The way I saw it from the outside, there was always pressure on the New York Rangers, for the GM to make moves. It was kind of ... necessary, |
The year off helped me a lot. I was able to play in the Czech Republic and Russia. You know, the same routine for 14 years, I'm not saying it was getting tiring, but it was mentally tiring, probably. |
There was so many good players in one place, ... Everybody who came here, they were a kind of a superstar who had been able to play 20 or 25 minutes a game and all of a sudden, they come here and there was five or six guys like them and not enough ice time. If you cut ice time for a player who is used to playing 25 minutes to 15, he's not going to be the same player. I think it hurts a team. |
There's a big chance I might be going to Moscow. |
There's no doubt in my mind we're going to make the playoffs, ... I don't think this is a rebuilding year; no way. |
They didn't win it, we lost it. You've got to learn from that. You've got to finish those guys when you have the chance like we had. |
They played well, but I'm not worried about it. We lost. But we proved we can play with anyone, beat anyone. |