He's been our best player all year and carried us through that stretch where he kept our hopes alive. It was kind of the one thing he hadn't done all year for us or we hadn't done for him. |
He's been outstanding for us. |
He's gonna have to wait for an opportunity. |
His offensive skills have never been in question. I'm looking for him to play a responsible game. I'm not looking for anything special with him. |
Hopefully this is what he needs, a little shot in the arm. He needs to find a way to get success and hard work is a great start. |
I didn't get much sleep last night. It was tough knowing you had a part in getting out of here a guy who gave you a chance to be an assistant coach at this level. |
I didn't think we were ready to play. We got away from things that gave us success the other night. We gave up chances that they didn't have to work very hard for. |
I don't know if we skated through some of the scoring areas as hard as we could have. I think a little more commitment and a little more desire around the net, a little more urgency, maybe would have helped us tonight. |
I don't think from the outset that we had our heads screwed on straight. I thought we didn't treat the opponent with enough respect. . . . It was just a disappointing effort. |
I don't think he ever showed what he can do on the ice. Part of that is our fault. We didn't put him into the right role and motivate him the right way to get him to play his best. That's the frustrating part. |
I heard a couple of 'Oh, nos' on the bench the way the season has gone. So that was a big momentum builder for us. |
I heard Forsberg's coming back. They've been decimated with injuries. It's another great challenge for us. |
I just thought they were kind of sleep-walking through the first five or 10 minutes. There were a few things we really wanted to focus on. One of them was driving the net and it's hard to do when someone's going 75 or 85 percent speed effort. I want to make it a habit to practice that way and sort of raise the bar a little bit in that area. |
I talked to them today how they [the Capitals] beat a real hot hockey team in Tampa Bay. We can't afford to look past anyone. It's a real tall task ahead of us, so we're trying to look at it as one game at a time, the old cliché, but there's no other way to do it. |
I think everybody should take a trip up that elevator once in their life. |