I think a lot of people underestimated the skill on this hockey team. I had full confidence in this team and that if they stuck with the program they'd be successful. |
I think what everyone underestimated about us was our skill level. |
I'll feed them milk and cookies. |
I'm assuming that's the way it's going to be from here on in. That's what we've been told. I'm assuming it's going to carry on like (Saturday) and I know that's what the IIHF wants, too. |
I'm kinda sitting here wondering what is a call and what isn't now. |
I'm not always going to be the nicest guy in the world, but I do care very deeply about my players. As a coach, your job is to provide guidance. Sometimes that involves a pat on the back and sometimes that involves a kick in the behind. |
I'm not making any bones about it: we have two or three guys who make a lot of money on this team, ... You know who they are and it's time they stepped up and took the team to another level. |
I'm not worried at all about our intensity and emotional level. |
If you get too caught up in what the opposition is going to do, it really affects the way you play. We're not going to change as far as our philosophy and the way we need to play. We play a certain way and we're going to play that way. We'll make some adjustments, but we have to stick to our game plan and our identity and the way we need to play. It has gotten us this far ? we're not going to go a different route. |
In our dressing room, we knew we have good goaltending. |
It doesn't bother me at all. Whether you like it or not, it's irrelevant. The call was made and (the IIHF) had the opportunity to review it and they looked at the tape and decided it wasn't worth reviewing and I'm fine with that. I trust them on that. |
It would not have changed the way we played. We would not have changed our game plan if the Russians scored one goal. |
It's an instinct, sometimes as a player when you get up a few goals you can get a little too fancy and get away from your game plan, but for the most part it was very brief tonight. We kept the puck going ahead tonight. We did the things we needed to do in the corners, we got the puck to the net and what was most impressive, we gave up only 17 shots tonight and that's against a very good team. |
It's been the talk of everybody outside our dressing room. This one game now means something because we've been able to accomplish our goals from then to now. |
It's been the talk with everybody since the beginning. The fans. The media. We've heard it with everybody we've seen, everywhere we've been. |