Jiri is an inspiration. To have a guy with what he's going through and he's still laughing and joking -- it's great to have him on the road. |
Not bad hands, huh? He's young and exciting to watch with these new rules. |
Not having Pavel leaves a big hole on this team, but we have a lot of guys who can fill that hole. |
On the first one, he just kept banging at it. On the second one, he just made a good move. On the third one, he fired a rocket backhand. |
Our guys played great in front of me. That's what we're stressing, solid defense. It's hard to play a team like that because they're so fast and they crash and they bang and they send guys all the time. Their defense is pinching. It's a credit for our guys to stand in there and take the punishment. |
Our team played great, it was our goalie that stunk. |
Ozzie and I are good friends, and whoever is playing better is going to play, ... But there's no question, it's a great opportunity for me to have a legitimate shot at being a No. 1 goaltender here for the first time. |
Ozzie and I are good friends, and whoever is playing better is going to play. But there's no question, it's a great opportunity for me to have a legitimate shot at being a No. 1 goaltender here for the first time. |
Pretty much everywhere we go, there's been a lot of excitement this year. Everyone seems to be enjoying the game. |
Sometimes that can be difficult because you see so few shots, and all of a sudden, there's a breakaway out of nowhere. But we didn't give up anything. |
Thank goodness. We were lucky to be down by one goal. |
That feels good, but you need some breaks with something like that, and I had some. You love that sound. |
That makes it a four-point game tomorrow (Tuesday). It's an important game. |
That second period, those two shots may have been from the blue line. That's the way the defense has been playing. They've just been doing an amazing job in front of me. |
That was an emotional roller coaster. Thinking you won the game. Coming back from that was tough but we did it. |