My dad has one eye (from a childhood accident) and my younger brother only sees out of one eye. I was going home for sympathy at the dinner table and got absolutely none. |
Our penalty kill wasn't very good, obviously. We can't be in the (penalty) box with the injuries we have on our blue-line. |
The guys looked good out there tonight. I was really impressed with their enthusiasm and up tempo style of game the showed. |
The only negative was that we didn't score on the power play. |
They played a great game. They were the best team in our league this season ... and we turned the puck over too often and took too many penalties. |
They're all really big pieces of our lineup. We have been really good without them and I would've liked to have seen them make the (NHL) playoffs ... but we'll take them back with open arms. |
To be honest with you, a lot of the shows before the game you wouldn't mind missing but this one we absolutely enjoyed being a part of. I don't know how you couldn't be (inspired). She was gracious to stick around and shake each one of our sweaty palms. She's somebody you just watched at the Olympics become a national treasure. It was great we got to be part of this. |
We just have to ride that emotional roller-coaster as well as we can. There's a lot of ups and downs and we have to handle it. |
We played the first 60 minutes the way we wanted to. We just couldn't put the puck in the net. |
We scored two power play goals, which is something we hadn't been able to do in a game in a while. |
We want to get back that good feeling that we had two years ago. It was a long summer to realize that we failed so miserably. It's nice to get back to work and give yourself and chance at redemption. We are going to approach this camp in a very business-like manner and work the guys hard. We won't be resting a lot of guys. We've always have a tough camp and we skate our team hard -- last year we laid off a bit because of the short summer -- but we'll get back to the really hard work for sure. |
We've got a lot of new faces in there, guys who haven't played together a whole lot. But we've got to get some of these injured guys back. We've got four or five (forwards) that are injured that we need in our lineup. |
When he was at the prospects camp in July, I didn't know he was the guy from Making The Cut , |
You never like to lose a game, but I wasn't disappointed with our effort. |