There hasn't been any movement so far, but this could be the calm before the storm. Everyone wonders what's happening around deadline time. Not too many guys are safe. You think about it. No use lying about that. But there's nothing you can do as a player because you're not the boss.

He plays with a tremendous amount of joy. He's like a little kid in a goalie outfit, just playing because he loves to. You'd rip one, and he'd stop it in practice and then he'd just smile at you.

When you looked at all those guys and their long-term potential, I always thought Kipper was the one.

We really stepped up in the third. It felt good to help contribute and its fun playing on this team.

No, no. Not a genius. This is like what reading is like for you. You look at the squiggles and loops, and the puzzle opens until suddenly nothing means something, something more than the sum of the parts, right? I see one hunk of metal and then another, and the puzzle opens. They turn in my mind and just make sense. Together they all mean something.

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