He's the backbone of that team right now. He's opening up a lot of eyes around the league.

They came out strong in the first and pretty much sealed the game right there. They're not the Stanley Cup champions for nothing. They know how to play, especially with the lead.

Every game right now for us is huge. It's fun.

It changes the whole game. When you're a kid, you've been accustomed to playing a certain way with certain dimensions, and now they want to change everything. I think it's foolish. I understand fans want to see more goals. But the way to make the game more exciting is to open up the play more and have more breakaways, more two-on-ones. If anything, [making the nets bigger] would make the game worse because instead of making plays to score, players would shoot from everywhere.

If you let their best players take one-timers from the slot, they're going to go in. Five-on-three is a tough situation for everybody.

I just tried to weather the storm. That's going to happen often when you play on the road. Teams come out strong.