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«He [Richards] is just the whole package for me. He's going to be a great player in our league. ... Even this year he's going to be a good player for us.»

«You just have to keep going and our players are starting to learn that.»

«We really asked Michal to take a bigger bite.»

«Put him on hold? I don't know about that. That's only going to make Don madder.»

«He's good for shock therapy. We don't necessarily listen for his ideas, but for his passion.»

«We just want the younger guys around confident people. Mike is a guy who doesn't need much direction. He's already motivated -- he reminds you of a 10-year pro the way he carries and handles himself.»

«There are too many games now where there's too much structure and not enough of the chaos.»

«He put a lot of pressure on himself last year when Carolina started making those changes. He just kept adding to the pile there and he put too much pressure on himself to try to do everything. He came here and after awhile he just played his game and was very, very effective for us.»

«He's real impressive. His skill level and his skating level are incredible. I think that he's a special player, but I don't think there is much extra pressure on him right now. I think right now he's able to find his own level because we are competent back there. We have good players back there so he's going to be able to develop at the proper pace. But when you have a player who is that strong, everybody gets excited. And I think we are all feeling like this is a terrific opportunity for him and the franchise.»

«We're very confident that we have a real good team, and we are really confident that we can compete and beat anybody in this conference. But we also are fully aware that the Stanley Cup champion is one hour and 15 minutes down the road from us, and the team that won the Presidents' Trophy [Ottawa] ended our season in the playoffs. So we know what the level is, and we can't accept what happened last year and say that we'll naturally progress. We are going to have to push ourselves individually and collectively.»