There is certainly an element of confidence that he brings to their side. He certainly makes that one line become very dominant. That's what they were. |
There was no problem with the weather. We enjoyed the whole atmosphere, and the whole experience was great. I'm sure people who watched it on television were amazed by what they saw. |
They are a hard team to contain. But we got some timely goals and terrific goaltending. It was battle-tested victory for us in many ways. |
They both showed a certain maturity, |
They came in here and beat us and that turned their whole season around. They started playing together and they went on to win the Stanley Cup. |
They picked us to miss the playoffs two years ago and they were wrong, |
They're playing like an ordinary team, but I remember that was the case two seasons ago, |
They've been our best line when they've been healthy. |
We are going to have to do something before we really wear out our top guys with all of the power-plays we're now seeing. If this trend continues and you apply that to an 82-game schedule, that extra unit is really going to come in handy, unless of course the players adapt their game to the new rules and spend less time in the box. |
We get an early goal and we think we're on the right track. Then we give up two quick ones. Our second period was definitely the period that killed us. |
We got better, and in the third period we took advantage of our opportunities. |
We have to get more traffic in front of the net. Those second and third chance opportunities won't come unless we start getting our sticks on some rebounds. But Belfour didn't make our job easy tonight. |
We have to make sure that he can do it against NHL competition. |
We just ask him to play well and if he fits our puzzle, we'll keep him. |
We really scraped the bottom of the barrel with our short bench. We needed a win to make our week a little happier. |