He made a sound and kind of fell down awkward. It's obviously not the way you want to go in. |
I didn't do very good. But our guys came through and scored a bunch of goals and that's why we won. |
I didn't have much choice. Their guy was right behind me and my defenseman went to the other side. You have to play the puck and take the penalty if it's called. You can always kill the penalty. |
I don't care if you were watching your first hockey game ? you could tell they were way better than us. If you take as many penalties as we did, you're not going to win many games, maybe one out of every 10. |
I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing. |
I don't know if it's the Red Wings. We've been giving up that many shots about the last three weeks. We're not playing well defensively. If you want to win, you have to start in your own zone. You can't give up 40, 45 shots every night. Especially in this league where you can't hold guys, you can't give up these kind of chances. |
I don't know what the reason is, but we've been getting dominated here lately. This is the NHL, and we're foolish if we thought we were going to start picking up easy wins. It's going to be a grind all the way until the end of the season. |
I don't think we were committed as much to the defensive side as we would have liked. That's why we lost. |
I grew up watching Dominik Hasek. Back home he played several years in the Czech Elite League and was the No. 1 guy on our national team. He was really the first Czech goalie to come over to the NHL and do well. He set the standard so high for everybody else, it's unbelievable. I have a lot of respect for him because he's been one of the best if not the best goalie to ever play the game. |
I have never taken a shot like that to my neck in a game. It was scary. |
I just had a bad day and when they got that first goal it just snowballed. Sometimes those things happen. |
I play a lot in the NHL, and I'm tired. At some point you need a little rest. I've played almost 50 games. This would be six games in eight days, or something like that. |
I play to win and that is about it. My job is to stop the puck. I can't control anything else. |
I think statements are made in the playoffs and we're far away from that. We still want to improve and get ready for the playoffs. We didn't win anything the last two nights. Our work is far from over. |
I think that's probably the biggest difference for us is that right now we're very talented and that can make a real difference in scoring. As the franchise has grown and developed, you can see the results of our drafts and the moves we've made. |