This is a dangerous time. If you are looking for outside help, it means you are not doing a good job inside. |
This is a huge deal for the players. For once in their lives, they get to feel like an athlete, not an entertainment machine. They live with everyone else from different sports. They get to represent their countries, which is the biggest thing for these players. From the experiences of '98 and '02, this is a big thing. |
This is an injury that when we did our medicals at the start of training camp was an injury that was in place from his time in New Jersey, |
This is the state were in right now. We played great yesterday and didn't get rewarded. We had a flat start to this game. Montreal took advantage and scored 5-on-3. They took advantage of our mistakes. We have to regroup. We have to get some healthy guys back in our lineup. We didn't play our best game today. We have some things we have to talk about in the next 48 hours. |
This isn't a slump. We competed at a high level; we just got beat. A slump is when you're not working. Work isn't the problem. We were minus on the power play again, and that's the game. |
This time of year, emotion is all with the players, it's all in the locker room. Intensity and emotion comes from the players. |
This was as dead as we've been in a month. I don't remember us playing this poorly. We had no work ethic. Their workers controlled the game. It wasn't their skill people. Their workers knocked us off the puck. |
This was as dead as we've been in a month. I don't remember us playing this poorly. We had no work ethic. Their workers controlled the hockey game. Our goaltender was outstanding, but when you go on the road and allow almost 50 shots on goal, it's not good. |
Those are the decisions that, when you don't have to make them or when you make them because people are playing poorly it's easy. The hard decisions are if we continue to play well, then it's going to be a tough thing to do, because you don't want to screw around with what's working. |
Those are usually a reward for hard work. Good players score those goals. Guys like you and me, the puck would end up in the seats. |
To me, it's about new heroes. It's about people other than the obvious ones stepping up. It's about people supplying energy and momentum for you. We're in a no-choice situation. We need everybody to bring the energy they can. |
Touch wood we?re in pretty good shape. We have six guys who are playing pretty good as a group for the most part and we have a seventh guy (Jones) who is playing 30 minutes a game with the Phantoms who was here with us before getting ready to join us in the playoffs. So we have seven. It?s a good mix. |
We already know Gagne is that player. We're hopeful Jeff gets up to speed there, but there are other players down the line we can use. |
We already know that (Simon) Gagne is that player, ... we're hopeful that Jeff (Carter) gets up to speed. |
We are fighting through a lot of adversity. We lost a couple more guys and guys are digging in. |