On the team's attitude as free agency opens:
"A lot has transpired over the last little while and we’re now entering free agency with the intent to try and improve our hockey club. It’s never an easy process in the free agent market, but we’re going to look at every different opportunity to try and do that. We set ourselves back in a position now where we have a little bit of cap flexibility, which was paramount in the whole exercise."
On the criticism he's faced over the past few days:
"I knew going in that the chair would be warm, accepted that challenge, and knew there would be some hard decisions to make.