from Chuck Gormley of CSN Washington,

Earlier this week McPhee met with the media to discuss this year’s team and the decisions he faces as training camp draws to a close.

On recent trade talk:

It’s just starting to pick up. I had a couple calls already. Things have tightened up in the league under the cap system. It’s been hard to make trades the last few years. We’ll see what happens. I don’t know that we’ll actually make a trade....

On what he would deem a successful season:

Well, I would call winning the Stanley Cup successful. The objective always is to make the playoffs and give yourself a chance. We’d love to go deep and we’d love to win a Cup. I read in the Washington Post where one of the Nats, it might have been [Ryan] Zimmerman, said it’s not easy being good. And he was right. We’ve been a real good team and we’d like to continue to be a real good team and give ourselves a chance to win. I think we have a good team with good people and we’ll battle like crazy to make the playoffs and then hope something good happens. As a manager that’s all you can do, keep putting good teams on the ice and hope you have some good fortune in the playoffs.

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