Kevin Constantine Quotations

It doesn't matter if it's here, Pluto or Jupiter. It's just nice to get a win, especially after such an evenly-played game.

It's just hard to know what's going to happen, but in the beginning there could be a lot more power plays and penalty kills.

Leland was by far our best player. He was awfully good, especially the more the game wore on, the better he got.

We traded Mike partly because we felt we might well lose him anyway and partly because if we kept them both, one of our key assets would have been on the bench for half our games.

We took the least 20 banged up guys and put them on the ice. I don't really have any feelings about it at all. We needed to rest some guys and that's what we did.

It wasn't even close. It was obviously a high stick and somebody out there has to see it. It wasn't just high, it was two feet high.

It's bothersome. We've given up way too many two-on-ones and breakaways over the last 10 days, and we've discussed it as a team.

There's too many of them to know right now. It's not like we can easily list that these four guys are going for these two spots. There's just too many right now.

We're looking to try and put the first half behind us. There were highs and lows and a little bit of a roller coaster ride early on. We want to take lessons from that experience and set goals for the future. But really we try to focus on - not to be cliche - a shift-to-shift, period-to-period, game-top-game basis and not worry too much about what's happened or what's in front of us. I think the future will take care of itself if we just work hard every day.

He's just so important. You're always going to look at (Zach) Hamill and (Peter) Mueller and guys like that and go, 'Look at that talent, look at that skill.' You're not going to realize Mark's role is just as important. But we've been around the game long enough to know it is, so we're thrilled he made a decision to stick with it this year.