I've never been part of it. I'm really looking forward to it. After Vancouver and Calgary and what we've heard about the way it is in Edmonton for the playoffs ... it's pretty special for a Canadian kid to be part of that.

I've heard it's dead cool and that it's in the desert. I'm looking forward to it a lot and I know we'll have a good time. We're going to be all deserted up and smooth as the sand.

It sounded a lot like me when I didn't want to go to Vancouver. Really, I had never heard of (Vazquez) before. I didn't know who he was.

One thing we wanted to do was take away Blake, with that big one-timer he has. We wanted to get into some shooting lanes, and we did that. We talked about how important specialty teams were going to be in this game, and they were.

We're a veteran hockey club, we know better than that. We hung Manny out to dry.

Cheli! The old fart. That's why he keeps playing -- he wanted that title.