"I think it's ... when the trade happened, maybe, I think it was kind of a fresh start. I'm excited to go to a team that is so committed to winning."

"I'm making better pitches. It's the little things. Last year I fell behind a lot and made mistakes over the plate. I'm making better pitches this year. I'm making the pitches when I need to. It's helped me a lot so far."

"We're still kind of kicking ourselves for those two losses at home. But we got two really big wins on the road and now we've got to go back and defend our home court, like we usually do."

"They were physical, they were banging me. Coming off screens, they were grabbing me. It was one of those games."

"This is the first night me, Bobby and Jamal got on the same page. We need to lead this team. I think tonight we did a good job."

"I was like, 'Does he just randomly walk around? They were like, 'Yeah, but not today, it's past his bedtime."

"We definitely put ourselves in a better spot than before we started, but there's a lot of work to do still."

"I just have a hard time stopping him in breakaways. I stop it all night long during the game."

"We're not kids. At least we're informed of the possibilities."

"He's been always really good against us. I don't remember the last time (the Devils' scored five goals on Hasek). I'm sure we did it, but I'm not sure when. We had so many opportunities tonight early in the game and he still made some great saves."

"I rode the wave for a while and it was fun, but you can understand now why I was saying I was not for [the shootout] when I was winning. This is the reason why. I thought we played a decent hockey game and everybody's bummed out."

"We've still got a lot of time before they exercise their option."

"I saw everybody in front of me, and their eyes were going crazy. It was a scary five or six seconds. They finally told us there was a mechanical problem and they couldn't get the plane in the air."

"Definitely it was key not having him around. We took advantage of him not being around. That's good."

"There was a recipe for disaster not having Jason Richardson out, getting in at 4 a.m. and playing a back-to-back. But the guys hung in there and gave us a chance. We battled hard."

"We ended up getting a ton of mediocre shots. The longer we did that, the more they got confidence that they could stay in the game. Then we got ourselves in a hole that we had a tough time digging ourselves out of. We got three shots at the end, but we never should have been in that situation."

"Very, very surprised. We had had a 45-minute conversation, and we talked about a lot of things. So I apologized to Billy, and that's the end of the story."

"We've been counting on Jason to put up the big numbers and he can't do that every night. We've got to have other people playing and doing things as well."

"The new owners will be bound by the same agreement we have with Isle of Capri. Certainly, our preference would be to keep the team in Pittsburgh forever."

"The economy so far has gracefully digested the higher energy prices _ amazingly so."

"It's similar to asking a big part of the labor force to leave. In today's economy where the job market is at capacity, asking people to leave means the economy will not grow as fast. In fact, there could be a very difficult adjustment over the first three to four years when this process is in full swing."

"The economy hit a pothole in the fourth quarter. I'm not at all worried about the health of the economy."

"The economy is strong, and if history is a guide it should suggest inflationary pressures should develop, but they haven't. Given the crosscurrents in the economic inflation data, it will difficult for him to be clear-cut."

"This is a significant economic event. This is much more substantial than any other natural disaster that the U.S. has experienced."