I'm the first to give them a day off or make practice optional when I feel they're working hard.

If there is an optional practice, they never go out.

For a moment today, after an optional practice, Laviolette seemed to let down his guard.

The unhappy Devils had one player show up for an optional practice.

"It's very tempting to try to do a lot of stuff by yourself," Murray said today after an optional practice.

Ftorek did not get on the ice for the optional practice.

When the optional practice ended, Brodeur was the last one off the ice.

"We're looking at the next game like it is the last game," he said after today's optional practice.

Brodeur, who took part in the optional practice, has made it clear he wants a shot at the record books.

There is also a voluntary part made up of optional practices.