28 Quotes by George McPhee

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 brings speed, Stanley Cup-winning experience and leadership to our locker room. We look forward to having him on our hockey club.

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.

Overall, I think all the things that have been done to the game are good for the game,

We've had him rated No. 1 for a long time. We could have done a trade for volume, but none of those players would have been as good as this guy.

We don't know what's going to transpire, what team it's going to be. When the right deal is there, it will happen and we'll evaluate the trade from there.

We're pulling for him. We hope he comes along and is just fine.

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.

We had talked to his agent about it,