Nobody intended the shootout to cause injuries, ... We're just trying to make the game better and make it more exciting. It was disappointing and frustrating for him that it happened because he was our best player. |
Not much really to add to what I said two days ago. Nothing for me to talk about. I'm not involved. It's been a hard week for my family. |
Obviously we're concerned and obviously we feel bad. |
Obviously you don't replace a guy like Mario, not only what he does on the ice but his presence on the locker-room, how much the players respect him and how much they look up to him, |
Obviously, you feel bad. It's a situation that obviously concerns the organization at this point, so other than that, hopefully things work out. |
Oh, absolutely. The next five or six games are crucial for this organization. |
One, my love for hockey. I wanted to be in the game, simple as that. Two, I wanted to feel the energy and the excitement again of competing. Being in the locker room, being with the players, I'm excited about that part of it. |
Our Achilles' heel has been killing penalties at home. They get a power play goal and it's a 2-1 hockey game. You get the number of points they have as a team by hard work, and we knew they weren't going to quit by any means. |
Our effort was really good tonight. We haven't been that good in the last couple of games as far as effort goes. |
Our kids just battled. At the end of a road trip, to come back in the third period is a nice confidence builder for the young guys. |
Our kids played hard. . . . They just work, that's all you can ask of them. If you don't work hard you're never going to get to the finish line and they work hard every night. |
Our kids, they played hard again and we didn't get a win. All in all we created a lot of scoring chances. We just got behind and could never catch up but it wasn't from a lack of effort. |
Our leader in goal production is at 19 goals. That's not a lot of goals. But 27 wins is a lot of wins for a group whose leading goal scorer has 19 goals. |
Our power play has been much better over the past 12 games or so. Statistically it hasn't been bad all year. Statistically it's been OK. It's just we hadn't been able to find that big goal earl in the season when I needed it. |
Over the last couple of months, I've really been leaning toward stepping in and taking on this responsibility, ... I'm really excited about it. I'm really excited to be back in the locker room and back on the ice. I'm sort of back on the hot seat. And I'm looking forward to it. I don't have to sit up top anymore. I can be on the ice. That's the part I'm looking forward to. |