We are not going to build a whole strategy around him. Hey, we all know he is a very good hockey player. We think we have 22 very good hockey players. |
We are not going to change our philosophy and the way we need to play. We have to stick to our game plan. |
We got this far playing as a team. |
We had a great group of young men and they just stuck with it and stuck with it. Going into the game, all you heard about was how skilled the Russians were and how good of a team they had, and rightly so, but I think one thing everyone underestimated was the skill level we had on our team. |
We really have to have a junkyard dog mentality and that's the way we have to play. I want us to be a very disciplined, committed, hard-working team and in your face. |
We weren't cheating tonight. Our attention to detail was that much better. Our awareness was much better and our awareness on the bench was much better. |
We're going to make mistakes, I know we are. But they will be corrected. |
We're young, but we're good. |
We've got to get better and we will get better. That being said, our opponent was a tough opponent. At the end of a day, it's a win. |
We've talked about things that have happened here in the past. When you get on a run it's pretty amazing what can happen. You saw what happened a couple of years ago when we got points in something like 22 of our last 23 games. |