I was open, and when you're open with these guys, they'll find you. You can read my stats and I'm not a goal scorer. The last thing I thought was I'm going to score on my first shift in a Red Wings uniform.

We have to play our best. You look at the Western Conference, every team that made the playoffs is a good team. I don't know if there's a clear-cut favorite.

It is kind of unique. It's been a weird story this season, it's been a bit of a roller coaster. But it is a possibility, it's part of the profession and it happens all the time.

Coming to an Original Six team, with all the history and the Stanley Cups, a locker room full of superstars I grew up watching and enjoyed playing against, it's a great feeling.

When you're in a position like this, you're playing with not a lot of pressure. You're playing a little loose.

I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the world, despite the fact that the evils of the world are more powerful than them. And essentially can never be defeated, but they refuse to bow down. And in order to enjoy that aspect of the hero, you've got to put them through hell.