That's a lot of skill, a lot of speed and a lot of hockey smarts all on one line. They mesh pretty well together and they're the type of line that should be dangerous every night. |
That's exactly who we didn't want to have carry it down the ice on a 2-on-1. |
That's not what we've seen from Ricky the last stretch of games. He has played better than that ... He's carried us for a long time. |
The goal at the end of the second period really hurt us. Good teams get things done at key times in the game. |
The individual puck battles that we were losing earlier this season, we won our share tonight. |
The short-handed goal really killed us. We were struggling on the power play and when you're not scoring and the other team scores on (the short-handed play), it is a big shot in the arm for their confidence. |
They use the new rules as well as any unit that you play against in this league. Their skill is so high and their body position, with Jagr, himself, he's a big man and when he has the puck it takes almost a man the same size and strength level to get it off because the rules inhibit the plays you used to be able to use on guys like that. |
They worked to get into those shooting lanes, they worked to get a body part or a stick in front of the shots. It's how they've had success. They have a ton of skill, but they also work as hard as any team we've seen this year. |
This guy plays beyond his years. He has poise and awareness with the puck that he certainly doesn't look like a first-year player. |
This roller-coaster thing doesn't work. We had only a handful of guys who played to expectations and gave to the team. |
To tell you the truth, I'm going to kind of miss them. |
We do need to get him in there eventually. |
We feel like we probably have to get to the 90s. But we can't win 10 out of 12 games in one night. |
We feel we can do it. We feel that we've got a lot of firepower on this team and teams can underestimate us at this point . . . We've all got a little bit to prove. |
We had enough guys do enough good things. It's not going to be good enough on Thursday against the Rangers, but tonight it was good enough. |