Rick Nash is a great player and Adam Foote will help. They're counting on Bryan Berard to put up some offensive numbers and play a lot of minutes and I don't think he can do it. Plus, they're just not deep enough.

A one-time bonus will be a help to us; it will be better than nothing. But it's not a solution to our ongoing problem.

Khabibulin will give them good goaltending. But he's going to have to be great, not just good, every night. And you put all your money in him and Adrian Aucoin. I like Trent Yawney as a coach but I don't think they've got enough talent. It's just not going to work.

The faculty within the department are working to help this program grow, ... We want to eventually have a building there where engineering can come and work along with social work so that this becomes an integrated approach.

I was really pleased with how well we competed tonight. I think this will help us continue to move up in the rankings. This will give us even more confidence to get to where we want to go.

To have a high-profile celebrity taking the simple step of wearing compression socks to prevent DVT, will help raise awareness of travel-related DVT.