Officially, in March, it's a lower-body injury. We're going to do the same thing that 29 other teams do now. When you guys ask about an injury, instead of me being so honest with you, all you'll hear now is that he's got a lower-body injury. |
Quite honestly I think we're still a long ways off. I think it's a lot more complex than what you're seeing and hearing. There's big issues and a lot of small issues that hook into them. So to think there's any resolution is really premature. |
That is really bad luck. |
The officiating got a little askew. |
The Olympic break kind of messed it all up. |
The only thing that would be comforting for me would be that we do get to play them. |
The top end of our team is not playing very well right now. There is a focus or purpose issue with some of our top players right now and its affecting our ability to play 60 minutes. |
Their penalty killing in this building is really, really good. They're probably the most aggressive penalty-killing team we've faced. That means you have to get an ugly goal, just like they did. |
Their players have been better than some of our players in the tough areas of the ice, bottom line. We have a handful of guys that can do a lot better job of getting there. |
This sounds like a broken record. We are being totally dominated. |
Usually Kipper is really sharp and he wasn't very sharp tonight. When you score four goals you should win the game. |
We are being totally dominated. |
We hung in there this afternoon with a deflated line-up and I was proud of them. |
We played well enough to get a point, but that's about it. Games like these have such a fine line, we had a disallowed goal on a quick whistle, and we had a broken play on the overtime goal, and that was the difference. |
We tried to get Jamie in the same deal as Chris Simon (two years ago). I look at (him) as a development type of player - a player who brings some skill to our team. |