They are like heavyweight fighters. They lean on you and lean on you and lean on you and wear you down. It didn't affect him. I think in the third overtime he kept on getting stronger.

With Tom, we can look to control the puck and set our forwards up more quickly. His ability to score gives the rest of our offense more open looks.

His ability to read (the play), and he has such a good stick makes him a great penalty-killer. His willingness to block a shot is part of it, too.

That's how Roscoe is. Whether it's penalty kill or just the game itself, he's very in tune to the game and wanting to learn and wanting to better himself.

He has unbelievable hand-eye coordination. He does practice that.

The reason why I came back here - obviously, I love the University of Wisconsin, I love the city, but I saw an opportunity to work with the best coach in the country. For me, I'm trying to get my master's in coaching. That's what it feels like I'm doing right now, under coach Eaves.

He really took a lot of pressure off of Josh. He's such a calming presence on the whole defensive core.

As brothers, you have your fights, you pick on each other. This (2006) group is more like brother-sister - real tight, but not over the edge. We were over the edge in '90. We got in a lot of fights - in the locker room between periods, at practice. But there was never any doubt how much we cared about each other.

Win or lose, you didn't know, but there was no doubt at all that we were going to give an effort. The guys were going to block shots for each other. They were going to take hits for each other. You could sense that right from the morning breakfast all the way through. I think that's the feeling the guys have and we've tried as a staff to continue that this week.