It wasn't comfortable at all, but that's the only way I could do it. It was hard to hold the stick, but I got through it.

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The regular season is a marathon. It's a long season, and there's no way you can play that hard for that many games a year. …The playoffs are more of a sprint when you have to give that extra 20, 25 percent that you might not give when you are playing the fourth game in five nights during the season.

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In our minds it doesn't change anything. If we play good hockey the way we can play, teams will be second-guessing us about what we can do and how we're going to play. They should be the ones who should be worried.

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