“Throughout the course of the season, you’re going to have ups and downs. It’s not just me and Shea playing defence; there’s five us out there playing together. I know it’s easy to say this pair or this line gets scored on more, but me and Shea generally match up against the other team’s top offensive line and you know we take pride in that. There’s nothing that we do differently than the rest of the team to prepare. We all prepare together as a team, we work on our systems and trust in our systems. Me and Shea take pride in being strong defensively. It’s something that I think we’re pretty good at, and we don’t prepare any different for any line. We might talk about what tendencies they've or what they might try and do, but that goes as far as how different our preparation would be for a line. Sometimes there’s going to be good nights and bad nights.”
“I feel good conditioning wise and skating wise on the ice. But being in shape for drills and practices and scrimmages is totally different than being in game shape. You can’t mimic a game no matter what you’re doing and any player will tell you that. So that'll be the biggest thing, and it'll be the same for everyone as everyone’s kind of getting into game shape on the fly.”
“You know what, I don’t think you can compare it to a normal season playoff. You’ve got sort of the grind of the season on your body when you’re going into a normal year in the playoffs and you’re riding sort of the momentum and the excitement of just qualifying for the playoffs. This is totally different, where it’s almost like you’re starting a new season but it means so much more because they’re playoff games. So I can’t see it being anything like previous playoff experiences. It’s going to be new for everyone no matter how much playoff experience you've. Especially with no one in the building.”
Against the fast skating Pens, is it smart to have Chiarot with Weber or Mete?