It's healthy for the league, having these young, exciting players coming in. As long as you are the winning side, like we are tonight, I don't mind him scoring a couple of goals.

I'm not surprised. I watched him play in the world championships last year, and all I hear from Detroit is how great he's been playing there. He's an excellent defenseman and what a game he had tonight, coming in first game like that.

I haven't played a league game in a long, long time but it felt better than I thought it would, ... You just want to win the hockey game when you're coming back.

I've told Tomas already that if I'm coming in on him one-on-one, he'd better move over.

Sometimes things just go right. It was just one of those nights. We kept coming back and didn't give up. We're still alive.