"I Enjoyed Working For Bruce, and I Enjoy Working With Dale." -George McPhee

At 6:00 of the above video, George McPhee sums up the difference between his working relationships with the last two coaches he's hired. Gary Bettman asks the Caps' GM to contrast current coach Dale Hunter with recently ousted coach Bruce Boudreau and McPhee unleashes possibly the wittiest remark of his career: "I Enjoyed Working For Bruce, and I Enjoy Working With Dale."

A lot of the Caps teams of the last few years certainly have had Bruce Boudreau's stamp on them in little ways, but for every Hershey success story (by the way, doesn't every team call up the best guys on its farm team?) or previous minor league associate (Joe Corvo stands out as someone whose character McPhee would not have pursued on his own, for whom he also overpaid) who came along, there were certainly also plenty of players on the Capitals who McPhee would have liked in any climate, and who fit into the type of club McPhee was building for years before he hired Boudreau to coach it.

Still, for the general manager to distance himself from his last three division-winning clubs and claim a bigger role in the construction of this year's seventh place Capitals is a very strong endorsement of the current group's playoff chances.