I guess when I sign the contract it's a done deal. The verbal commitment has been made from me to them and from them to me. We've already notified our school here that we won't be coming back next year.

I won't let it be disruptive to my teammates at all. I believe that when you sign a contract, you play until the end, and then at the end of that you sign another one. If they choose to call you and say, 'You know what? We'll give you an extension,' you deal with that accordingly. Honestly, I've done good things, but you still have to establish yourself where you have a right to talk - 'You know what? I deserve this right now.' I haven't done that. I just want to play.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

[There's also the matter of Saskin's contract, a four-year deal that includes a two-year option, worth about $2.1 million annually.] That's another thing that Trevor decided to take upon himself, ... It was just Trevor Linden and Ted negotiating with each other.

When we sign a contract with a vendor, laying out a specific schedule for delivery, we expect it to be met,

It's not a good sign when you have repeat red tides when you never used to.