It's how we play as a team, the discipline in our own game. |
Like I said, all we've heard is Dec. 31, Dec. 31, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, Canada-USA, Canada-USA. Now it's here. This is the game. This is the game. Now that's a good thing. |
Listen, this team we played (last night) played well. They're a big team and they can skate. |
Maybe they'll play differently against us; I don't know. I thought both teams (last night) were generally very trapping hockey teams and they waited for opportunities. |
Obviously that save was huge for us. |
Obviously the team knows the importance of the game. Whether the kids get too high or too uptight ... we'll see what they're like during the day. |
That was a two-hour, 45-minute hockey game. There is always the assumption these rules were put in to make the game more entertaining, but that is not entertaining hockey. It's not something you want to see in the game. We can't let it dictate how we need to play, but it makes it difficult to coach. |
The 24-hour rule is on for us with another big game coming up. We've won five of our last seven games and we have to keep it going. |
The bottom line is we have to win hockey games and we've got to be one goal or more better than our opposition to do that. Let's just make sure we're keeping pucks out of our own net. |
The call was made. They had the opportunity to review it. As far as the IIHF was concerned, they didn't feel it was worth a suspension or worth a review. I trust them on that. |
The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January. |
There were a couple of players who were more responsible about it than others and I challenged them. I told them, 'Buy into the program or you don't play and how embarrassing would that be if you're sitting in the stands at the world junior championship and you're a good player? |
They certainly rally around him. They're certainly a different team with him in their lineup. |
They had an opportunity to review it and decided it was not worth reviewing. I'm fine with that. |
We all know (Malkin) is a very good player. Well, we believe we have 22 good players. |