It's a best-of-three now. This is two teams that are very closely matched. Both are playing really hard right now and there's not much difference.

The two games they were together there was tremendous chemistry. They want to play together. They both really want it badly, and we're going to take a look at that.

Both guys are going to start the season with us. We are counting on them being good players for us. They are here because they can help us win. They are not here because they are young players.

I phoned and left a message for Brett but haven't heard from him. A player knows before he even comes into training camp whether he has one foot in the door or both feet out the door. He knows that. Brett knew that. But he was a special player.

We gave up two shorthanded goals, both off scoring chances of our own, and when you've got young players back there, those are mistakes that are going to happen. We'll get better with it.