He barely hit him. Sometimes, your momentum carries you. I don't think he hit him hard. If he ran him, he would have gotten 20 games.

He believed in me a long time ago. I had five good years with Ken Hitchcock in Dallas. And the terms of the deal mattered, too. I have a family and I didn't want to be moving around every two years.

I don't think they should have done that. I know all of our guys were worried about him and a lot of their guys were, too.

He's very intense. That's where it starts, his intensity.

I don't know if you're supposed to love your coach. Right now I love him, but we'll see in a couple weeks.

I don't know if anyone felt that he could come back.

He sees me, turns away. You can't stop. If he keeps going and takes the hit, it's not even an issue right now.

Hey, it's the playoffs. Guys are going to hit and guys are going to be hit. You have to take it. You can't afford to take penalties at this point.

I guess they'd probably have to lose all their games and we'd have to win all of ours. We basically took it out of our own hands.

I remember that pretty vividly. We knew what we had to do and every player wanted to do it. That's what it's going to take.