from Dan Rosen of NHL.com,

Can you describe what it's like for a guy like you to be on a team like this at this stage of your career, a team with young, talented players but rife with inconsistency?

"I don't think it's easy for anyone. In our business, if you win you feel good and everyone is excited after the game. It's amazing the difference of emotions after a win or a loss. It's a results-oriented business so definitely the days when you're not winning are a lot tougher, a lot harder. But I feel like right through the League there are not many teams that are powerhouses, and we look at ourselves and what we look at is our one-goal games. If we could pull out a few more here and there -- I know that is what-ifs -- but it makes it so we feel like we're not so far behind a big group of teams. A third of the season is up. There are a lot of games still left but at the same time you have to start winning two out of three, three out of four, get on a streak. We haven't had a big streak yet and every team seems to go through one. So if we could get on a four- or five-game winning streak it would give us not only the points in the standings, but also the confidence of feeling good and knowing that we can climb back."

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