Professional athletes are used to dealing with situations that require focus and discipline. That's what we're going to ask these professional guys to do. |
Right now we're trying to build some team work, we're trying to build some confidence, |
Sometimes these things come in bunches. You really can't explain it. |
Starting today, preparation will be for going forward. |
Talent is only one part of this whole thing and we tried to rely on talent tonight and it wasn't good enough. If we don't realize that then we will be going home early. |
Talent? We have talent. Talent is only part of the whole thing. We tried to rely on talent tonight. I hope we learned. |
That hasn't been a strength of ours this year, obviously. (Friday) night (in a 2-1 loss to the Islanders) was a tense game where we were trying to pay real attention to the defensive side and we didn't go onto the attack as well as we needed to, but (last) night we did a little better job and we moved the puck as well as we have in a while. |
That was one of the years I thought we had a real good chance to end up against Detroit. We had so many injuries, but yet such courageous performances that maybe you just dream you can do it all. |
That's a lack of discipline. |
That's a question to a coach and the coach would certainly like to have him here. Bryan has been improving and has been a strong performer for us and will continue to do that. He's one of our leaders and an important player. |
That's the disappointing part, |
That's what he has to strive for ? that's the goal he should be setting. |
That's where we got into trouble before, playing him before he was ready ... we'll have to make sure we're on the same page with Darcy and the medical staff. |
The 26 players we selected today are the ones who we feel will get us (back) to that gold-medal circle. |
The biggest thrill for me is to watch young guys get better and start to achieve what they're capable of, ... It's a lot like being a teacher, when you see young students start to blossom, that is the real thrill I get in the job. |