We owe it to the fans and we owe it to ourselves to give it everything we have to try and put ourselves in the playoffs.

We want to play in the playoffs as a team.

I personally want to play in the playoffs.

It's a slim margin of error in this league.

If you want to do something for the rest of your life, it's not going to be easy, especially being a pro hockey player, so you need to work at it.

You have to make every day count toward your dream.

My dad gave me this advice: 'Make what you want to do for the rest of your life the first thing you do in the day and then worry about hanging out with friends.'

Playing in the OHL, people expect you to get a ton of points. When you go out and have a good game it's almost like people expect that out of you.

If you're tanking to get a higher draft pick, you really shouldn't be playing hockey.

There is a lot of instinct that comes with playing hockey and playing a number of games and playing all the way up; you kind of get a feel for what's gonna happen and make plays off that.

I am never going to be much of a physical presence. For me, it's more about taking my strength and finding a way to use it as an advantage.

I need to improve my physical play and get as big and strong as I can.

Hockey is a year-round job.

You don't want to be that big shot, some guy who's some... whatever.

I can multitask.

When you're a rookie, sometimes your voice is not really heard.

If you're putting the puck in an awkward place for someone, that's right away, advantage: you.

Every Hockey Canada event, the first day you just do a thousand interviews. You get used to it.

I think the best players in the world make the players around them better. And I'm always trying to do that.

I think that's what you need throughout your lineup. You need guys to help each other and feed off each other and to have that chemistry.

I'm definitely not one of those guys that's chirping the guys that dress super nice, because you know, there's guys out there in the league - and on my team in fact - that have great style. And I'm just like, 'go for it, man, you look good!'

You can't just go out and buy players and make a super team, because it's so hard to do that. The salary cap doesn't allow it. We have a much smaller salary cap than the NBA, and they only have 12 on a roster.

I was definitely not the cocky kid. I was probably on the other end of the spectrum - I was quiet. I remember a time when there was a skills competition, and I think I was five, and I was so nervous to even compete that I chose not to do the skating part.

As a kid I wore my team's tracksuit all the time. Splash pants or track pants. I wore a hat every day. And then when I got to the NHL, guys would make fun of me that I had the worse style in the league.