When it's a holding or hooking penalty [five of the eight were], usually your feet aren't moving. Down the stretch, and hopefully in the playoffs, that could be the penalty that will set you back. So we have to try to eliminate them. |
When you look at the third- and fourth-line guys, in a lot of ways they define what you want to take pride in and what we believe this city will appreciate, too. Flat out hard work, good honest work, (and) trust and care in each other. |
When you've heard from the ref once, you've kind of got to suck it up. |
When you've heard from the referee once that you've got to kind of suck it up and quit yapping, you should probably do that. |
Whether it means Wednesday or Saturday, I'm not sure. He feels good that it's improving. If he feels good, so do we. |
You can pick all sorts of reasons out why we're doing all right this year and I can tell you Kevin Weekes has really contributed to that whole thing by the nature of how he's chosen to deal with the situation. |
You can teach those tactics but I don't know if his spirit will allow him. Let's hope he can figure it out before something really unfortunate happens. |
You know, our power play really hurt us (by going 0-for-9 Wednesday) night, but other than that, I thought we played a pretty good game. Tonight, I thought we played a more complete game. |
You stroke when you need to and challenge when you need to. |
You try to generate some things that might be able to give you a push, I'm not sure we got it to the degree that we hoped to. Then again, we lost, so I guess that speaks volumes. |
You want to do better than that. You want to answer the bell. We did have a strong game against New Jersey. But so what? That one's over. |
You're in the 'big parade' now, and you have to participate. If we give ourselves the chance to play five-on-five hockey, then who knows? This is something that's been in our game early in the season, late in the season, and it's obvious that we are incapable of dealing with these types of situations. We have to stay out of the penalty box to give ourselves a chance. |
You've got to have a minimum of two options every time with the puck. If those options are gone by poor positioning by your teammates, you're in a pickle so you try to do things that just don't exist. We made some bad choices, not just him. |