The best person to protect anyone is himself. That's the message he sent - don't mess with me because I'll protect myself. |
The Flyers have a lot of injuries right now, that's for sure. But our team, if we move the puck well, can play with a lot of speed, whereas their team is big, but they're slower than us. So it's like we have opposite teams, but it makes for good games. |
The information is that he was improving, that his vision was clearing up. Blood was dispersing, but there were still parts inside his eye that the doctors could not see and that still needed time. |
The intensity in those Toronto games was very high and it took a lot out of us. |
The other night we had lots of great scoring chances and we didn't complete them, but tonight the scoring chances were minimized so we'll be looking for ways to penetrate the defenses of Carolina and to get some of our players participating and getting some results on the Carolina side of center ice. |
The style he plays with was the prominent style in this game. We needed to go into the difficult areas to get the puck and send it toward the net. |
The swelling has to diminish before the physicians can do all the necessary tests. |
The way both teams are going, that's why you saw the game that we saw. It was important game and it could have effect the outcome of the season. |
There really was no reason to drop him into a pot of boiling water when we can drop him in and warm it up gently. Guy will grab on to where we are and where we're going and what is needed quickly. |
They had a power play five or six minutes in that really disrupted what we were trying to accomplish in the first period. In the second period, we were in the box five times I think for anything from clipping toe nails to anything else they were calling. |
They kept us off balance through most of the game, through three or four power plays. We're certainly not tight in our team play. |
We didn't foresee that 18 months later, he'd be our No. 1 goalie. We brought him here to be the back-up, but he has got to where he is through hard work. |
We don't have the luxury of being far enough ahead in the playoff race to be able to find positives when we don't win. The results overwhelm everything else. |
We gave Jose a three-year contract last summer with the idea that he was going to remain with us. Since then, things changed. |
We had created a small space for ourselves between seventh and ninth place. When I added things up in my mind, it wasn't instinct, it wasn't gut feeling. It just seemed like the right thing to do given our schedule. |