"If they still had a franchise in Atlanta then maybe it would be a little more significant because I spent more of my adult life in Atlanta than I did in Boston. But obviously being from here, for me it's fun to see some familiar faces, particularly having worked in the organization for eight years." -- Flyers coach Scott Gordon, who hails from Easton, Massachusetts, and coached with Providence, Boston's affiliate in the American Hockey League, for eight seasons
"Yeah, go get us a win, that's about it. Listen, we trust him, if he's not ready that's fine. He's coming off a pretty serious hit there but when he's ready we said he'd go back in and that's about it." -- Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy on the message to goalie Tuukka Rask returning from a concussion
