As a forward now, you have to start thinking. As a defenseman, you turn your brain off for 60 minutes and play the game. But now that he has to play a smart position, he's done a pretty good job with the transition.
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I think maybe there's more bad blood now between us and Vancouver than with Detroit. I think now with us and Detroit, it's just a rivalry between two good teams. Most of that bad blood was a long time ago. We didn't have anybody out there tonight who was a part of it in '96.
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It (stinks) because he's such a great player and you want him all the time. But if you're ever going to lose a guy, now's the time of the season when you want him to be healing up.
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Detroit's always Detroit, but we're going to have a lot of new faces that weren't there for the rivalry. There's always that little edge going into that barn because of the fans, and there's always a little bit of a hatred.
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I think Tony's a great tool for Joel because he's already been with the team. He knows a lot of the players and what we're capable of. I think it's a big advantage.
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(Kronwall) was trying to get out of the way. I don't think he saw me coming, and then at the last second, he tried to duck. Sometimes when you do that, you can catch an edge. You never want to hurt anybody out there. You don't want to see guys limping off.
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I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.
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I think it's in the back of everyone's head. But at the same time, I think it's great. There's nothing to save [ourselves] for. We've got one year before everything gets shaken up, and it's kind of fun. It's like a whole-year playoffs because you don't know what's going to happen after.
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When he gets the puck in those areas, he usually scores.
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Coming into the final 23 games, we set ourselves up to where our destiny's in our hands. If we win the games we need to win, we'll put ourselves in good position.
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