Basically, our lives were put on hold. A lot of stuff I had to do on my own.

My family was actually better than I was [about e-mailing].

I think it would have been harder if we had kids...for me it was just taking care of myself.

Life hasn't really gone back to normal yet, but then it never really was normal, because [after the wedding] we were getting ready for him to leave.

Basically, we had to remake him. We worked on his delivery to speed him up and get him to hold runners better. He was also tipping his pitches. But most of all we needed to instill confidence in him.

It's basically that they're going to call the rule book. You can't hook, you can't hold, you can't cross-check, you can't slash. As long as you don't do those things, you're fine. The DVD describes [the new rules] and we're going to really charge our players to learn as quickly as possible that you can't use your stick, you can't be holding, it's body position and crowding people. It's going to be an interesting few months.