The crowd was amazing. This is a dream come true, the perfect launching pad for my career.

What can I say, I threw crappy and I got beat. I've been sick for five days, on antibiotics, that's it.

I threw absolutely crappy, absolutely crappy. He got lucky, that's what happened.

The strange thing is, at this stage of my career, it's so hard for me to separate individual from team, ... So much of my focus is on the team. Maybe it's because I wear the (captain's) arm band every week. Maybe it's because I'm maturing as a person. I'm not really sure what it is.

It's always good to go out there against the great ones. Glavine's pitched like that his whole career. Fortunately, I got a couple of runs early and that helped. I could afford to make a mistake.

That's all I wanted throughout my career in the NHL, ... I'd get sporadic chances over 12 minutes in Montreal.