George McPhee Quotations

We're going to play the younger guys. That was our plan all along. We're going to find out if some of these young guys can play.

Mike will be back, ... He had an excellent camp, and we anticipate that this will be a short-term move.

Getting Jeff was a move we may have made anyway, ... It doesn't close the door on Semin or Sykora, but we're not going to just sit here and wait for them, either. We are going to cover our bases.

We told him to do what's best for his family, ... We just hope everything is okay.

He said he'll be on the flight, ... He's going to have to come in and earn his spot.

He's getting closer, but he's not there yet. It's probably going to be a little while yet.

Just to have hockey in our building is going to be terrific for all of us. The game's back, it's better than it was and we're all looking forward to a full year of hockey.

I think it's premature to try to determine who he's going to play with. He's a real talented player with some bite to his game who will fit in real nicely with this team.

Jeff is worthy of this for a lot of reasons, ... He has the maturity, the talent, the experience, the leadership. But he has a neat perspective of this club that not many people with this club, or any club would have about their team.

Jeff has all of the ingredients of the type of player we are looking for, ... He brings elite speed, some valuable championship experience and is a powerful skater who goes to the net.

Jeff brings speed, Stanley Cup-winning experience and leadership to our locker room. We look forward to having him on our hockey club.

Our forward group is in good shape and our goaltending is in good shape, but we have question marks on defense. We'll play some of our young players back there and see how they do. We have five or six young guys we are going to give opportunities to and we'll see who is able to grab those spots.

Overall, I think all the things that have been done to the game are good for the game,

We've had him rated No. 1 for a long time. We could have done a trade for volume, but none of those players would have been as good as this guy.

We don't know what's going to transpire, what team it's going to be. When the right deal is there, it will happen and we'll evaluate the trade from there.

We're pulling for him. We hope he comes along and is just fine.

We didn't expect him to be this good this early. We were hoping he could play as much as the veterans, but he has carried this team on offense.

We had talked to his agent about it,

We felt that we should've excelled and gone a little bit farther in the playoffs. But we think we are a playoff team and we hope to be better this year. There were certainly some positive things about last year. We missed out on the division by one point. We felt like we were having a good playoff series and got some bad breaks and it didn't go our way. But the objective is to go as far as you can, and we think we are capable of going farther.

We have done everything we could to avoid this step, but we felt we had no choice but to now seek a legal remedy.

We could use some more goals. We like the way the defense has played, and the goaltending has been good. We think we have some young players who can score for us. We'll see what the second half brings.

At this point, he is in violation of his contract. We are going to be as aggressive as we can to remedy this,

It's the first step. Essentially, the court has agreed with the Capitals that what's taking place isn't proper.

It's been a long time and a long, hard struggle. I was expecting a decision today but I think it'll be the answer we're looking for.

It's nice to see that players who know how to play the game will be able to excel.

I haven't talked to him personally, but he said he's coming back. He signed a new deal.

Alex exercised his right to opt out of the Russian contract this past summer and signed with the Capitals. We are confident that the court will uphold Alex's contractual status and decision.

Alexander has agreed to fulfill his commitment to the Capitals, and we believe he can play a key role in our future.