No one likes the business side of sports. Everybody kind of gets dragged down in that, and it puts a black cloud over sports. The fans don't like it when you're talking about money. |
Not really. I'm kind of disappointed. |
Not so much panic. Maybe a little more desperation to our game, a little bit more urgency to get things done, have a little bit more jump. |
Now, finally, the game has kind of gone back to the forefront. The business part of it is over, and I think the fans are excited about that and the players are happy to have that behind them. |
Once the deal was done, you just had to learn to live with it. I think everybody put it behind them right away. No one talks about it. You don't hear a word about it in here. |
Our ability to make plays and do things we've done well all season, all of the sudden to not have that happen, I think everybody has got questions why that's happening and why that is. |
Overall, it´s great to get back on the ice, |
Overall, it's great to get back on the ice, |
Personally, I think things are going to be fine. I think some markets are doing better than they expected with season tickets and with the excitement leading into the season. |
Practice wouldn't have accomplished much (Thursday). I think it's just a matter of doing what we can do to win just one game. |
Pretty similar to 1999 and 2000, very similar. |
Pushing through a lot of things, making that second or third effort, maybe not relying on some of the other players to make great plays, ... I think there was a lot of standing around, watching, rather than being a little assertive myself. |
That country doesn't roll off the tongue when you talk of the hockey world. |
That's been a highlight of our Olympics for a number of years. It's a lofty goal. |
That's just a killer. An innocent play in our zone ends up being a goal against. There seems to be a lot of those. |