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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.

I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.

I would always treat my attacking game as the more natural part. With defence, you have to get yourself in positions to understand the game and understand situations and that might not be as natural a thing.

Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.

We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

Sometimes people think that if you're always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you're automatically a good sport. I don't believe that.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.