Doug Armstrong

Willie is a veteran player who upgrades the depth of our defensive corps. He plays a solid defensive game and read more

Willie is a veteran player who upgrades the depth of our defensive corps. He plays a solid defensive game and will be a good fit for our hockey club as we prepare for the 2006 playoffs and a chance to compete for the Stanley Cup.

We got good news right after the game. He was walking around on his own. It's just a tweak to read more

We got good news right after the game. He was walking around on his own. It's just a tweak to an injury that he had before. He's day to day. I'm not sure if he's going to play [tonight at Phoenix], but it's nothing that is going to prevent him from playing next week and into the playoffs.

When he first went down, it didn't look good. And he was so close to the bench that he didn't read more

When he first went down, it didn't look good. And he was so close to the bench that he didn't have to get up to get off the ice, so I wasn't sure what happened. But I talked to the trainer between periods and he thought it would be good and then I saw Mike after and he was all smiles with the team winning the division. So a crisis averted, I guess.

You can't counteract whatever teams are doing. We were always worried at one point about what Detroit was doing, and read more

You can't counteract whatever teams are doing. We were always worried at one point about what Detroit was doing, and we haven't played them in nine years [in the postseason]. So it's really irrelevant, I think.

In this new system, the star players have to be star players. If they aren't, you are probably not going read more

In this new system, the star players have to be star players. If they aren't, you are probably not going to be successful.