It definitely opens up the ice a bit. It's definitely less congested out there.

You're definitely not going to intimidate him, that's for sure. He won't be dissuaded to go the area where he's had a lot of success in his career.

The ice was definitely abnormal.

The ceremony itself was inspiring. But it was a debacle from the outset.

It was very disappointing for everybody that the game went that way and it was steered that way from the outset by the officials. It was an egregious error to put the game in the officials' hands.

We have to play a much more intelligent game then what we played the last three games. We've been sloppy for three straight games now and you can't hope to win at this level making those types of mistakes.