A lot of players are well-coached, but the player has to be willing to take it into the game. He does that. He knows how to apply himself. |
A lot of these Finnish kids come in look at his work ethic, and they think that's the way we have to be. |
Are they bad mistakes by the goalie? No. But are they goals that we expect Marty to stop? Yes. And that's the difference. We can be an average or below-average goalie and just wallow along, or we can we be a really good one and give our team a chance to win, and that's the responsibility we need Marty to take. And he's done it in the past, so it's not as if we're asking for something that we don't know is there. |
Bill knows how he's going to have to play in the playoffs. |
Bill knows how he's going to have to play in the playoffs. I've had long conversations with Bill about how he can most help our team. If he can get his game elevated enough and going, it's another plus for us. |
Blocking shots, it's going to hurt. You can't win in this game without getting hurt. |
Both our goals were hard plays at the net. Brenden goes hard to the net ? just grit plays. You do those enough, and you get rewarded. |
But the second thing is he just executes extremely well. |
But they play in different buildings there. You don't have that same flavor. |
Each line got a goal. So it seemed to work. |
Every time he stepped on the ice, he gave everything he had. |
Everybody in the NHL knows what everybody else does anyway. There's not a lot of big secrets out there about the game. |
Everybody's healthy. Turco is going into the playoffs with no hiccups this year. So we feel good about where we're at. |
Fatigue was certainly a factor tonight, but we hung around and got ourselves a chance to win. Marty was great tonight. |
From an entertainment factor, we held up our end tonight. |