Alyn McCauley Quotations

I was trying to get it out of the middle -- safe play. Didn't quite work out that way. It was certainly my mistake. I'll take full blame for it.

I think the lockout hurt a lot, but I think if we get back and give everyone an appealing product, where rules are called, and let the game's talented players play and show off their skills - I think we'll attract more fans than maybe we did before the lockout,

It's not too early to start thinking that way.

It definitely opens up a lot of things that you don't think about before you have a guy like Joe. It affects everybody out there.

It was a bang-bang play. I thought it was going to the point. It hit a shin pad kind of in the middle. I think that we went and forced the pass from Lang. They're talented players, they find those passes.

Where it gets really complicated is some player reps are on different teams now and some aren't even playing. Some executive-committee members have retired. So who gets a vote? Who still has a say in the matter? Without those guys in there, should somebody be promoted?

They're probably one of the best or the best passing club. You give a team like that room ... We got away from things we wanted to do.

I didn't really see the goal. I was trying to recoil my tongue from a two-minute penalty-kill, and then I saw Bernie put his hand up. I was told later that it was quite the move.

We've lost a few key guys but there's some good young players in our organization that will fill those spots and we intend on not missing a beat from the last season and maybe getting even a little bit better.

Obviously it was a set play and we didn't react to it well enough.