I can't really say I felt fatigued coming home after the (2002) tournament. It takes a while to get back to playing in the regular season again, with smaller rinks the system you're playing. Otherwise I still felt good coming back and playing. |
I did get a good night's sleep last night, so I think I'm getting close to being back to normal now. It's good to be back in your own house and your own bed and seeing all the family again. |
I felt that I didn't bump into him. I heard the crowd go nuts out there but I didn't feel like I bumped into him. |
I played a few pre-season games with him in Detroit, so we've played together before. You just have to read off one another. |
I think everybody is confident having Henrik back there. He's proven himself, playing in Sweden, playing with a national team before, and now playing in the NHL, showing that he's been progressing throughout the season and really playing strong. |
I think he's just getting better and better as we're going down the stretch. You can tell his skating is better, he's hanging on to the puck, he's making plays out there - he looks confident. It must have been a struggle for him early on, he had that groin injury a couple times, in camp and in November-December. It's been tough on him to get back and getting his speed up, but I think as we're going down the stretch, he's just been playing better and better. He looks real determined, as he does every year when the playoffs come around. |
I think it's going to wait until after the playoffs. I'm in no hurry, really, to get it done before. |
I think it's great to have him back. Too bad we couldn't get Pavel, but we had to have one of the two guys back. We've got Hank signed for a number of years, and that's great. |
I think we can make it tougher on him out there, make him skate a little more. He's going to make plays out there. We can get on him quicker, not give him that time with the puck. |
I think we're getting there. |
I thought in overtime we did a lot better passing the puck around, and we were more poised. We have to be more sharp on the power play, and you can't pass up any shots, either. |
I thought it was a perfect ending that they assisted on my goal. Finally being able to wear the gold medal is just an unbelievable feeling. |
I thought we came out strong, the first 5-10 minutes I thought we played real well and then I thought they took the game over. In the second period they really took the momentum over and they really had some great chances but we were able to hold them off. I thought in the third we started to play a little better again. |
I tried to go high blocker side and I hit it just perfectly -- I got everything on the shot. And I hit that spot where I was aiming, too. |
I tried to shoot high on the blocker side and I hit it perfectly. |