“We've got 9,300 (season ticket holders) here and we were at 6,000 when I was hired, ... I believe this is a great hockey market. I remember when you couldn't get a ticket for games here. Then we gave people reasons not to come, and they stopped coming.”
“This deal does two things. It gives us some cap room, and it solves what really is almost a crisis right now. We had set aside, as many teams did, a reserve of about a million and a half dollars to deal with injuries. That was inadequate.”
“We intend to re-invest this money. We intend to spend at or near the cap, less an adequate reserve for injuries. When you're re-shaping your team and make a major move, if you're going to do more than one thing, it makes sense to do it quickly. Bringing three or four or five players in over a 10-day period is preferable over a 60-day period.”
“That's not enough to make me panic. I don't see any major changes we need to make at this point. We need some guys who can score goals to start doing that.”
