General Manager Paul Fenton: "The investment that [owner] Craig [Leipold] put into there and the Wild and just to build this brand and to be -- I don't know of anywhere where you're this close to your practice rink and your game rink. Everybody that gets into a routine, you're coming to the one spot. It isn't like you're traveling 10 minutes outside of town to go some place. I think the way it is, how beautiful it is, the different types of machinery that's in there on top of the ice itself is gonna make it just a great place for our players to train and get better."
Coach Bruce Boudreau: "It's amazing. I've asked for a golf cart just to get around. It's too friggin' big. It certainly tells me that, hey, ownership and management is doing everything they can from hiring a professional chef, for having a theater, for having every known treatment kind of thing there, that they're willing to pay the price. There's no stone unturned."
Defenseman Jared Spurgeon: "It's pretty amazing, the thought that goes into it, the time and just all the people. You can see the pride ... about how hard they had to work to put this together. I think we're pretty spoiled to have something like this. When you grow up playing hockey, you're in some pretty tiny and not the greatest rinks and dressing rooms, but to be able to walk into something like this every single day and have everything at your fingertips is pretty cool."
