He is a big, strong, aggressive player who should develop into a power forward who will play an important role in the future success of our franchise, |
He put in the systems on the first day of camp and started to work on drills that were going to come up in game situations. I think our team has been prepared very well for the way the game's being played. |
He really did everything he could in rookie camp to show that he's ready to play. |
He's been our best forward, |
He's been very strong. And so have our other young goalies, [Kevin] Nastiuk and [Justin] Peters. We've got [Magnus] Akerland in Sweden, and he's still junior age. This is the deepest group of goalies we've had since we moved to North Carolina [from Hartford, Conn., in 1997]. |
His announcement was in a way like his career _ very professional, ... He went about his business quietly and he's one of the all-time great players to play the game. |
His announcement was in a way like his career _ very professional. He went about his business quietly and he's one of the all-time great players to play the game. |
His announcement was in a way like his career — very professional, ... He went about his business quietly and he's one of the all-time great players to play the game. |
I am very excited with the addition of Ray, who is a skilled forward who will add more speed and offense to our team. |
I think our team has been very disciplined in both games, |
I think we are a little anxious as to how the games are going to be called. We're told by the league they're going to be called the same as they were during the regular season, but you get different officials that call games different regardless of what system you're in. |
I think, at certain times, it's going to help teams that are doing a good job of forechecking. But it may actually help the goalies. Not everybody is like [Martin] Brodeur or [Roman] Turek. |
If we couldn't get Mark, we would not have made a deal, whether Erik Cole was hurt or not. |
It's a good building block to get these two really good young players. |
It's exciting after the position we were in for a few years [falling to last place in the league in 2003 after winning the Eastern Conference in 2002, then failing to make the playoffs in 2004]. But it's a credit to all our players and coaches. |