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They're three years ahead of us in the weight room.

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This is the complete reverse of the homogenous white makeup of West Virginia. Nine out of 10 of the evacuees are black.

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It could have been an excuse for us to sit back, blame it on the travel. But we have (today) off and we knew that, so we wanted to work hard and get the two points.

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I wasn't sure what to expect when I got traded. Not playing against San Jose much and only seeing him on TV a few times, I didn't realize how good and quick and dangerous he is at finding those holes a passer always looks for when he's trying to find a goal-scorer. After the first game or two, I knew we had that kind of chemistry I had with Glenn Murray for so many years in Boston . Maybe better.

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They have a lot of ball control and make you play the field.

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We'll have to grow up in a hurry. When we got tired we started making penalties that cost us. When you get tired you tend to give up more big plays. That's why we're working very hard this week on our conditioning.

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I thought we played 55 minutes of great hockey. We've got to learn to close the door when we get a chance. We say it, it seems like every game now. Until we start learning, we really need to bear down. It just wasn't good enough tonight.

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Being a rookie at 18, he came in and didn't miss a beat. This year, just his patience for a young guy is uncanny and he has lots of confidence. The sky is the limit for his potential right now.

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From Day 1, I just played real well with Cheech. You don't plan for something like this. These two awards are definitely team-oriented, and we're just happy for each other.

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Our power play was clicking pretty good there, and unfortunately we couldn't get another minute there on the clock. We competed, fought back, but time just ran out.

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We are a confident bunch. We have a young bunch. Yeah, everybody in the dressing room feels like we can make the playoffs for sure.

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When another team's senior lineman goes against a sophomore lineman, that's experience and physical growth and at least two extra years in the weight room. We can't make up for three years, but we can start right now.

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They make you take responsibly defensively.

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They were obviously missing five key players and we're trying to gain that final playoff spot. We need every win, every game. I hope we make the playoffs and face them again.

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He's just an interesting story, and people need to know about it. I think good players make each other better. People might think he's just a shooter, but he's not. He's the full package.

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You have to have good people around you to make something like this happen. I just surround myself with good people.

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I think we're gonna get those guys signed, ... I've talked to both of them and I know they want to be here. They're just doing what they think they need to do, but they know we need them here and management knows that, too. I still think they will get it done and they'll be here soon.

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With them being the last team we played against, we don't have too many good feelings for them, and they probably don't have too many good feelings towards us. They're our number-one rival it's a good way to start the year off.

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We're better than we were yesterday, and hopefully we're getting better every day. We're getting used to each other the more time we spend on ice.

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It's funny how that worked out, us and Montreal playing again. It will be a chance for a little redemption, I hope. I think everybody in the league is going to be hungry this year after not playing last year. Our team is definitely going to be hungry because that ending two years ago left a sour taste in all of us.

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Our work demonstrates a fundamental error in the current challenges to Darwinism. New techniques allowed us to see how ancient genes and their functions evolved hundreds of millions of years ago. We found that complexity evolved piecemeal through a process of Molecular Exploitation -- old genes, constrained by selection for entirely different functions, have been recruited by evolution to participate in new interactions and new functions.

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I guess it could have been worse.

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This is a little different from down there. But I'm a Canadian boy and I like the winter.

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It frustrates the other team. You just stick with it and wait for your chances.

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I think Boston's a great sports city, and I think the fans are great here. We said 'We're sorry' so many times -- we just hope the fans will come back, and I think they will.

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