SuperJoe az újakról:

"...at the end of the year after our playoff loss to Minnesota we knew we needed to have a little more depth on our third and fourth lines, and we felt we needed to get tougher. We feel we got tougher, and for sure the experience factor -- leadership -- you can never have enough of that. We know our core guys are young. To bring in this leadership to help them along is huge. Now you're not relying on one or two or three guys to be leaders. We have a whole bunch of leaders helping our young guys."

"We expect Stuart to help Johnson and be that presence in the locker room and obviously on the ice. We wanted to upgrade our [defense] and we feel that we did that by getting Brad in here, especially with his toughness and his leadership."

The Briere trade gives us flexibility. Briere is on a one-year deal whereas PA was on a two-year [contract]. With our lineup, PA probably needs to be on the top two [lines]. He's not a third-line player and that's where he would have been. Daniel Briere brings that experience, he scored big goals in the playoffs for Montreal, and he's a guy who's almost a point a game in the playoffs. He's a big-time player, a competitor, and we believe, especially on a one-year deal, he's going to add a lot to our dressing room.

We like what we've added in Jarome and Brad Stuart and Briere, his veteran leadership. Our core guys are all young and we wanted to surround them with great veteran leadership and we've done that. We feel our third and fourth lines, we were lacking depth in the playoffs and we really noticed it against Minnesota and we feel we've got some depth down there as well. We're pretty happy with where we are right now."

És Factorról:

We're going to focus on trying to get Ryan signed," Sakic said. "If we don't, we're going to arbitration, so we know he's going to be here. We want Ryan to be here and to be here for a long time. I haven't spoken to (agent) Pat Morris since we filed. Now that we're all done with the draft and free agency I'll be getting in contact with him.