New Jersey Devils Reportedly Desperate to Move $30M Forward

"We wanna create an environment where the standard of play, which he's talked about, is sustainable, whoever's not in your lineup or whoever's in your lineup.

And I think when you look back, the style of play just didn't change the mindset in where we had to go as a group, whoever was in the lineup or who wasn't in the lineup. So I give the players a lot of credit. I do think there's been a lot of growth.

I am excited about the expectations that Sheldon and the standard he has set for this group that were probably a little sticker-shocked at the start or throughout the year, that they're used to, and they're gonna be,

"This is what is expected," and I'm excited about that. You can't control injuries, so it doesn't matter who's in the lineup, who's not in the lineup. We create an identity. We play one way, the right way, a certain way."

"I like our group. My job is to continue to better the group.

You know, we've got a lot of decisions to make on certain players, whether we bring guys back, trade players.

We won't be coming back with the same group, I could tell you that, 'cause it wasn't good enough. So at the deadline, you know, you weigh everything out, where we're at healthwise, where people-who is available-what are the acquisition costs.

My mindset, and I think I said it after the deadline, was I felt it was no secret what I was looking for at the deadline, what I felt this team needed positionally, and went hard at it. Made some real quality offers. However, we didn't get the people that we tried to get."