It felt good to be back out there. It seems there's going to be a lot of specialty teams this year. I think that's what everybody's kind of talking about right now, the amount of penalties that were called. You know, basically, how are we going to adjust to it is really what it's going to come down to. |
It seems there's going to be a lot of specialty teams. Basically, how are we going to adjust to it is what it comes down to. |
It was an ugly type of goal and Brad had a cheeky grin on his face, but it was what we needed. |
It was huge. Some pretty important power plays were killed. |
It went well. It was a lot of fun. |
It´s going to be a fun game for guys who like to get out there and skate, ... So I´m just going to go out there and do what I can. |
It's definitely affected us a lot, ... It kind of handcuffed Detroit. We had a lot of money tied into a lot of players. (General manager Ken Holland) had to step up and make some changes to free up some money. Even though we did, we didn't quite get enough. |
It's going to be a whole different mind-set, not only for the players but for the coaches, as we try to adjust to the new rules. Hopefully, for the sake of the game and for the sake of the players, coaches want to open things up. Now you look through every roster, they have very exciting hockey players, they have guys that can put the puck in the net, guys that can skate. Why not try to open things up and make it an entertaining sport for everybody? I think that's going to have to be the case. |
It's going to really open up the game, make the game a lot more entertaining. Training camp this year is going to be more important than previous camps and the exhibition games are going to be very important to get a grasp of how the refs are going to call things. |
It's something I definitely want to build on. |
Let's hope we don't hear the word 'trap' anymore, |
Not only were we not able to get Pavel signed, we also had to buy out Darren McCarty , Ray Whitney and Derian Hatcher , |
Obviously, we would love to have him in our lineup, |
One thing we wanted to do was take away Blake, with that big one-timer he has. We wanted to get into some shooting lanes, and we did that. We talked about how important specialty teams were going to be in this game, and they were. |
Out of all the teams in our division, we were the least active because of how much money we had tied into players, |