446 ordspråk av Ken Hitchcock
Ken Hitchcock
We gave up two shorthanded goals, both off scoring chances of our own, and when you've got young players back there, those are mistakes that are going to happen. We'll get better with it.
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We got beat by a much better team tonight, a team that was much more composed with the puck than we were. We didn't have near the composure they did.
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We got the lead and weren't chasing the game. It allowed us to play our game a little bit better.
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We had a lot of things that we did very well tonight. But to give up the two goals (in the third period) was really disappointing.
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We had a team that had a high payroll and we were able to pare it down,
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We had new personnel there and not a lot of days to work on it. We'll get better at it, but we didn't shoot the puck.
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We had nine first-year players against Montreal. Everybody knows our situation. We're limping.
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We had nine first-year players against Montreal. We practiced with 15 players today. Everybody knows our situation. We're limping. Still, we're only one point out of first place.
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We had some breakdowns. When you spend as much time in the other team's zone as we did, you're going to get some of those breakdowns when you're trying to score.
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We had such a terrific start to the game. And to me, as soon as Peter went out, our whole energy just dropped right off the cliff. Our energy went right down the tubes. That's the second time that's happened and that's got to change.
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We had the wrong attitude to start the game.
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We had the wrong attitude to start the game. They play a heavy game, they play an old NHL game and we wanted to play around the game instead of plow through it. When you give a team that's in a desperate state like Toronto some hope, they're going to follow through.
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We had to respond after what happened in Buffalo. We played better and we played the way we have to play to win.
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We had to respond after what happened in Game 2 in Buffalo and we did.
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We had to respond after what happened in Game 2 in Buffalo. We have to play to win. We have a tendency to make things interesting in the end but we did some good things tonight.
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