You guys know it always takes me a couple months before I get it going anyway in a season. I should be ready for the playoffs.

I think that's the ultimate individual honor. If you're lucky enough to stay with one team, that's awesome.

They're in a difficult situation; it takes awhile to turn it around. After the new year we're 7-0. And the last couple of games, we haven't played our best games but we've found a way to win.

It was just the first period but it could've helped us. It could've changed the course of the game.

I got a pretty good check on that guy, and he lost control of the puck.

We didn't test him enough.

It helps that they're going well. We were making good plays, spreading the ice pretty well. I didn't want to hold back. I told the coaches that when I come back I want to play, I don't just want to go out there and play a couple of shifts and try to work into it.

I don't know if I ever said that to myself. There were a couple of times that I felt OK and then all of a sudden I started feeling like (garbage).

I'm more nervous than excited, actually. I felt okay the past couple of days, no pain, no problem. I feel good conditioning-wise and hockey-wise. It's going to take awhile. I'm a little too quick for my hands right now. My hands are not that good.