I made the mistake of starting our relief guy tonight. And you can never expect to get nine innings out of your relief guy. |
I still believe wholly that it's a product more of our undoing rather than either team taking it to us and beating us. |
I think any player that missed as much time that Pavel has missed is going to have a little rust in terms of quickness and so forth. We did what I thought was another good job taking away the free-flowing ice from them and forcing him to the outside as best we could. |
I think any player that misses as much time as Pavel did will have a little rust and not have as much quickness. |
I think it lends a sense of perspective for both guys because they've been all over the place to get here. |
I think that will all go away. There was a tendency to overpass early in his career, but he's making those decisions fine now. He's making good decisions. The one time I told him to shoot the puck, he feathered it over for an open-netter, so he knows what he's doing. That hasn't been an issue at camp. |
I think they'll all be like tonight. It will be a pressure-filled situation from now until the end of the year. As a player, you've got to put that out of your mind, relax, and play the way you know you can play. |
I thought it could have easily been called. We contributed to our own demise. |
I thought our defense played extraordinary. |
I thought the biggest factor in the game was their third goal. It's emotionally debilitating for your club to go through something like that, and we weren't able to bounce back. |
I thought they played well. It was unfortunate (Friday), but Hemmer got a nice goal to get the Czechs back into the game at 5-2. But then they had a mental miscue at the end of the second period to put them back out of it. |
I thought we moved it around well, but when we did get the five-star opportunities, we didn't put it in the back of the net. That's maybe the only criticism I have of the game. |
I was concerned with the injury factor. It wasn't worthwhile at the end of the day taking the chance. |
I would never call it a trap. If it's a trap, then Detroit plays the trap, too. I would call it . . . |
I'd say this. Without Chris Pronger on our team we would be so far from any playoff run. |