34 Quotes by Rick Nash

They said everything was on track, that the injury was what we thought it was right along. I'll take a week off, relax, and when next week comes along I'll start therapy again. Hopefully, I'll be on the ice and back at it in two weeks.

They didn't throw me on one of the top lines, but they didn't keep me out as a healthy scratch, either. I think Dave King and Doug were using me well, and I think it was good development for me. I couldn't think of a better team to come to for a young guy than Columbus. You aren't just going to jump in and be a star player at 18. It's tough to be a star in the NHL. I just fit in and played my role on the third line, and just kind of hit and chipped in with a goal here or there when I could.

You don't see much net with Luongo and, lucky enough, I went for the low blocker shot and it went in. It would have been a pretty down feeling if they came back and won.

It?s a tough job. People don?t realize how difficult that is. I was good at it when I was 12. I seem to have lost my touch a little bit.

It was frustrating. They wanted to shake things up and try different things to change it up a bit. Obviously, nobody was really playing with any chemistry.

It was right around the corner: he was hitting posts, he was just missing nets. Finally they started going in for him tonight. That's a big night for him.

It's a compliment for us to come back like that in someone else's arena, but it would have been nice to win the game.

It's part of the game, it's an injury. I've got to stay positive.

It's still a little bit sore. It's going to take a little more time.