Today, we were oil and water. We didn't mix very well. We had guys with a little bit of anger. |
Tomas faced three very dangerous shooters. What you like and love about Tomas is when the heat is on, he doesn't shrink. He gets bigger. |
Tomas is a great goaltender, but he just doesn't get enough respect around the league. He's one of the great stories we have. To see where he's come from to where he is now is wonderful. When you are coaching, those are the stories that you love. Because he wasn't in great shape, his attitude was off center a little bit, but now he's the hardest working, most fit, most professional guy. And he's still young. |
Tomas, talk about a gold medal performance. That was a gold medal performance. |
Vancouver lost two defensemen for probably a week to 10 days in that tournament, which doesn't bode well for them. |
Vernon Fiddler made a big goal [by] keeping it simple, taking it to the net and driving. Fiddler's line was strong. The other two lines had their moments. We just need more moments from them. |
We came into this game with a lot of focus and we needed a game like this tonight. This is the type of game you can build on. |
We didn't have our stopper in there unfortunately, but that's the way it goes. |
We dug ourselves such a big hole early on. I always say that mentally and physically, you have a bank account as a team, and we had to go to the bank account real early. At the end of the season, we overdrew in some areas. When you dig yourself in a hole, it's tough to get out of. Hopefully what you saw in the 55 to 57 games in the middle stretch is more of what you'll see from the Predators. We're going to have to be more resilient. |
We executed really well and took parts of their game away and established parts of our game tonight. You need a lot of different parts working together if you want to be successful. |
We frustrated them, and they took a lot of poor penalties. We knew their game plan. They wanted to bang, have a lot of energy and come out and prove a point. There wasn't much of a point at the end. |
We had a couple of big saves from Chris Mason in the third. We had bang-bang goals in the second period and Hartnell came up with the big goal at the end. It was a key goal for us. They sort of had us on our heels, they were coming hard, but we were able to get the big goal tonight when we needed it. |
We had it and lost it and had it. I almost had a heart attack. |
We had to fight through a lot of adversities - penalties. Our goaltender played outstanding for us again. More than anything, we came back three times. |
We had to fight through a lot of adversities -- penalties. Our goaltender played outstanding for us again. More than anything, we came back three times. |