Maybe we got too full of ourselves after the last game, figuring we'd arrived. It's not about arriving. It's about working to get somewhere. And we didn't work tonight - not nearly as hard as we have to. |
Mission important and possible. It's a race to four games and they've only got three. As far as I'm concerned, we can certainly do that. |
My guess is it'll be Henrik. |
My guess is we'll certainly be emotionally attached to the game like we should. Whether or not we execute in a way we want remains to be seen. |
My hope is that other players are inspired enough by his presence to really put out beyond what they've been capable of in the past. |
No, black-and-white wouldn't go across too well? Jeez, a guy from Cranbrook [British Columbia], I forgot all about baseball. |
Obviously the penalty parade would suggest I'm not completely happy at all, nor should (the players) be. There's no benefit of the doubt in the playoffs. You're in the big parade now and you've got to participate. It becomes obviously clear we're incapable of dealing with the pressure of these types of situations well enough to stay out of the penalty box and give ourselves a chance. |
Obviously we're having difficulty in our penalty kill, and he has done a decent job of it when he's been out there. It was a chance to practice it because, looking ahead, it's obvious that we're going to be killing penalties. |
Often times, it takes more than one person to check him. You have one person on the body and the other person on the puck. If you try to play him one-on-one, he'll eat you up. |
One thing I'm sure, we're not going to beat the New Jersey Devils from the penalty box. |
Our intention is that every time we go on the ice we have a purpose, and there is a level of performance that is acceptable and one that isn't. Sometimes we help them understand what acceptable is. Today was no problem. They worked hard. |
Our power play got us a couple of big ones and our PK did what it had to do. Keep the puck to the outside. They work very, very hard. |
Overmatched? I doubt it. I just thought we had a strong game. We took advantage of some things that were presented to us and I thought we were as good as we've been defensively all year. |
Pretty deflating. It was a tough start obviously, not what we had hoped and planned for. |
Right now that could be an extremely valuable point. Tonight, it is. |