Keith, when he feels good, is just going to come to the games, he's just going to observe the team's play, take notes and hopefully give us some insight, kind of like a player-coach who isn't playing. |
Let's see how he looks when he comes back over here. This is a different game over here. Angles are different and there's a tremendous amount of activity around the goal here; a lot more than there is in the Olympics. The shot totals are a lot higher here and the quality of shots is a lot higher in the NHL. Let's see how he plays when he comes back here and let's see how his energy is. |
Look, it's my responsibility to get the team ready, OK? This is on me. We were embarrassed for our fans and for the city of Philadelphia with the way we played. We've got to make amends when we go back home and get this series back even. We've got a lot of work to do. |
Look, it's not pretty. It's about getting points right now. We talked about fighting to the end and we fought to the end and got two points. |
Management has given us a real fighting chance here to have a real good team. And it's our job now, coaches and players together, to try and put this thing together. |
Management misses an opportunity to build a team greatly. |
My opinion is that this (game) is a good wake-up call. We weren't prepared to pay the price (tonight). |
No. You had one team playing reckless and one team trying to get away with playing careful. We didn't get away with it. We had to dig in. |
Now people are starting to see what we look like as a team. Hopefully we can stay healthy. We've been chasing it all year. |
Oh, I don't want to talk about what we did. Peter would never forgive me. |
Oh, yeah. These kids are 20 years old and it's a lot to put on their plate right off the bat. This is a whole other level, and it took them a couple games to get into it. But Carter and Richards really played well (in Game 3). |
Once they got the lead, they were able to sit on it. I don't think we played with the emotional level that we have at times. A lot of that is New Jersey. They play a very methodical game and they take the emotion out of it. |
Our energy just dropped right off the board. Our energy just went down the tubes and we've got to figure out a way to recover. |
Our overall defensive play and goaltending have been excellent through six games. What I like is that we have different people every night who are chipping in. They've kept us competitive. |
Our role players came through. You had one team (Washington) playing reckless and the other trying to get away with playing careful. |