Georges has been around for a while and he's constantly overpowered guys in fights over the years.

But now we're a month into the season and there's no real advantage to having played last year. Over half the guys in the league did play somewhere. Everybody's caught up and it's business as usual.

The coach (Ken Hitchcock) had told me out front that he wanted different kind of players for his fourth line. Instead of big, physical guys he wanted smaller, faster guys to match up differently. All you can say in that situation is thanks for being honest about it. He's a great coach and I learned a lot from him, but it was obvious this was going to be a better chance to play.

Both Georges were not thugs. I know the difference and I know guys that have been in a tow truck that are bikers but they're thugs. They'll do stupid things, they'll insult people, they'll intimidate people at wrecks. . . . These guys weren't like that.

Those guys are young and that showed.

We've got some guys who can throw. They just haven't been put in big situations.