Hopefully, we'll show those guys that we're not second class. Hopefully, we'll catch them off-guard.

I've probably got 20 phone messages from my buddies back home. They were probably getting drunk at 7 a.m.

I still dream about playing in the National Hockey League. I was a good player but I wasn't an unbelievable player. In Canada, you have to be unbelievable.

We're not a bunch of slugs. We're elite players who have been in Europe for a long time now.