Brad Richards Quotes

Not going up 2-0 was big.

It`s been one of those years. We feel now that finally we got in, we can start over here hopefully and try to do something.

Everybody`s doing the math, it`s not rocket science to see what it means. ? We`ve already lost Nikolai Khabibulin and now it`s going to be a big challenge to get Marty signed.

We`ve never been the eighth seed, obviously. It`s going to be different. We`re not going to worry about what happened two years ago. We`re just going to worry about our team now.

It was tough to get our emotional level up all day.

We`re not scared of them.

When you are in, you are in, it doesn`t matter. It took a little while longer than expected, but we are in.

Canada is Canada. We all talk about how we could have two teams and we probably could. We all know the next three months of the NHL season will tell the tale.

We`re just happy to be in. You don`t want to be asked to pick your poison.

We`ll give it out best shot. We`re not afraid of them.