Everybody wants difference makers and everybody wants great players.

Everybody wants difference makers and everybody wants great players. Sometimes, you get a great player that's not a team player and then you have a great player on your team and he might not help you win games.

He can take some visitors, so that's a good sign. We'll have a number of players and coaches going over there this afternoon, but they still want him to rest. (The doctors) feel very good about his progress.

These are guys who are difference-makers.

We always try to pride ourselves on being the difference makers. I thought we were the difference makers.

[Many players are convinced that owners are attempting to divide the NHLPA. The owners' latest proposal called for players making less than $800,000 to maintain their current salaries while players making more than $5 million cut their salaries by 35 percent. If owners want to splinter the union, they're not going to be successful, Brendan Shanahan said.] The hockey mentality is that when we're challenged, we grow tighter together, ... One player or two might speak out and it might reflect (poorly) on the union, but 99 percent of the union will band together.