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It's an exhilarating play, and you come off tired, but thrilled.

The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

It's an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That's it. That's pretty much been the story for the past three weeks, and obviously at some point something catastrophic was going to happen, and I broke my hand.

In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to reality and I realize, 'Hey, I just ripped that boy's helmet off,' or, 'I'm over here twisting this guy's knee.

The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.

This is a physical game, and that's how you have to play. When you do that, the defense eventually gets tired of tackling you.