What do you make of your new roster heading into the season?
Boudreau: I think it’s pretty good. I think we’re going to surprise some people. A lot depends, quite frankly, on Eric Staal. Is he going to be old Eric Staal or new Eric Staal? We’ll see.
He was playing mostly wing in Carolina and then again in New York last season. What was the thinking with pegging him for the first-line center role?
Boudreau: Every team wants a center that is big and strong and can play against other teams’ big centers, especially in the West, which is our situation here.