"We can't be thinking about the playoffs right now. It's our goal, but I think it's wrong. We can't talk about playoffs now -- this year's playoffs, last year, we need to forget about this. If we're going to think about Pittsburgh Penguins playoff in October . . . We're not going to make it far."

-Evgeni Nabokov of the New York Islanders. More on Nabokov from Arthur Staple of Newsday.