All you can think about is hockey. Sometimes you try to get away from it for a bit, but you can't go very long and you start thinking about it again. Everything, I mean everything, is hockey.

He's so calm back there. He jokes back there and just relaxes everybody.

The last few games, we had been getting a lot of shots and chances, tonight that didn't happen, but as long as we find ways to win games.

Not too bad. The result has been pretty good.

Nothing was broken (in my face). And the scar, hopefully, won't be too bad.

It was great back then because hockey in L.A. was the big thing. We would have Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford coming into the locker room. Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell were there all the time and all kinds of other celebrities. It was cool.

It's a tough question. You want to go in being hot, but you also want to have that comfort of being in the playoffs.

It's equally as hard to get back. I think the one thing that you have is the knowledge of the ups and downs, you have the experience of what you just went through. You know when to expect the different surges that happen and how quickly things can change. So I think you can go out there and understand the big picture, while obviously looking at the little things you have to do.

They seem to be getting too many odd-man rushes lately, and good defense is going to lead to good offense and we just have to concentrate on that.

We just have to verbally keep talking about it. You can't have negative thoughts, they take up too much space and energy. Obviously, there is a lot of that going on and now we need the results. You have to stay positive talking with each other on an everyday basis. It will turn around, you have to believe that. We are too good of a team not to do that.