That's the way it is in this building. They're a good team. If you're not 100% ready, they'll have you chasing the puck. That's what happened. |
The (penalty kill) has been doing a great job all year. It's something we want to improve down the stretch and it gives us confidence. |
The biggest thing we had in this game was the passion. From the beginning, we wanted this game, and the Czechs felt that. |
The coach knows we can create things and we did. |
The integrity of the game is obviously very important. And betting on hockey is obviously something we don't want. Until you know all the facts, you don't know how it's going to affect the game or put a black mark on it. |
The optimum would be to have him (Hasek) in net but he's injured and we're happy the way Ray has been playing. He's going to be the guy for us. |
The power play was probably the best we've had it all year. |
The second half of the game I thought we played really well. We were able to get the puck in deep and we were able to keep them in their end for long periods of time, forget that fact we haven't done a whole lot lately, and we just wore them down, I think. |
There's quite a few of us that are a little over 30 and who knows this may be our last big tournament together, we want to make the best out of it. |
They are a young team that works really hard and tries to be a spoiler. We played well and had our chances and the first goal was going to be big obviously and it didn't go our way. |
They came out strong in the third. It should have been the other way around. |
They did for Canada, so why not? |
They played well in the first period and got up 2-0 on us. We scored some big short-handed goals that really got us going. It seemed like we were waiting for something to happen and when it did, we took over. |
They put some good pressure on us, |
They put some good pressure on us. It started with a penalty, it got them momentum and we couldn't stop it. That's something we have to get better at, there's no question about it. |