This is my eighth year as a pro, and I've yet to play in a playoff game. That eats at me a lot. You never know how many years you have left. I want to make the most of them.

These games have been the biggest so far in my career and it's nice to step up and help the team.

I really want to make the playoffs. I've yet to play a playoff game. That eats at me a lot. I'm 31 years old. You never know how many years you have left. I want to make the most of them. I'm taking this personally and doing my best to make it happen.

I just told them exactly what's been going on with me. I haven't been playing a lot of minutes, and irregardless of the score I try to go out and play the game a certain way and try to bring some intensity.

In no way, shape or form did I mean to injure Darcy. I finished my check the way I have hundreds of times before. He just happened to hit his head in a bad way.

In the last 30 games or so, I've been trying to get up into the play and help the offense as much as I can. I want to be a second-wave threat.

It was a huge game tonight and it was nice to really show up for a game like that. We are watching scores around the league, but first we have to take care of our own business and tonight we did that.

Emotions were definitely heightened because of what was going on. The linesman was so fired up he tried to throw me to the ice. Obviously the referees were jacked up.

At the upper limit, there's more total dollars being spent on players. It creates more of a healthy marketplace.

Every guy in the room right now believes that we can do it.