I came from one of the most powerful offensive hockey teams maybe ever, and yet when it came playoff time, we knew we were going to have to win a 2-1 game and we were responsible for it. |
I don't even know what to say. I've never seen anything like that. The guy played really well, was maybe our best player in the game, and to take an injury in that kind of scenario is just not good. |
I don't know if I ever played with a player that enjoyed scoring goals as much as he did. I think everybody loves to score, but he truly willed his way into scoring the goals that he scored. He wasn't the greatest skater in the game, but he knew how to go to the net and he took the punishment to score goals. And he won the hearts of fans of L.A. |
I don't know what the record is for scoring the fastest goal on your first shift, but that's got to be up there. That's a great way to start your NHL career. |
I don't know when he'll play again. |
I don't like losing, nobody likes losing. Sometimes your effort is strong and our effort was tonight, so I was happy with that. |
I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you. |
I don't like overshadowing anybody. |
I don't think it's an epidemic in the sport of hockey. Obviously, I'm also pretty smart to say no one doing it is a lie, too. . . . We have a red flag that goes up when you see somebody is positive. |
I don't think that we as a group worked as strong early in the game as they did, and that was the difference. If you look at a team like Los Angeles, they are successful because they are pulling together in the same boat. Everybody is going in the same direction, everybody knows their responsibility and does their job. |
I don't understand it. We played two tremendous games Thursday and Saturday. The success of this team is pretty simple. We're not a great goal-scoring machine, so if we think that we're going to play that way we're never going to be successful. The success this team has had is when it has played methodically well, sound defense and doesn't give any chances to the opposition. |
I don't want to get in a situation where he is 90 percent and gets re-injured and is out for another week. . . . We won't take that risk. |
I don't want to get into a situation like 2002 when we picked the team so early and then some players got hot later and we got criticized, |
I don't want to say it was an easy selection, because I'm not trying to be demeaning of the other guys who were part of the process. But it was a pretty sure thing [Luongo] was going to be there. |
I felt like the last three days I've defended myself over something that absolutely and unequivocally never happened, that I was not involved with. The three days have been horrible and I'm too tired, mentally and physically to talk any more about it. There's nothing for me to talk about. |