52 ordspråk av Jeff Halpern
Jeff Halpern
I'm proud of the team's resilience to come back from the loss in Philly.
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I'm sure on Thursday I'll be thinking about things, ... But at the same time, I'll be thinking about Thursday's game, too. Hockey is a big part of my life. It's brought people in my family a lot of joy.
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If anything, it was more us than Thornton. We gave him too much respect and as a result he had room to operate. We can't give him that much time and space.
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It was the first thing I checked when the schedule came out,
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It's a pretty humbling experience.
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It's almost like getting traded because there's going to be a lot of new faces. There's a lot of free agents we picked up or guys we traded for.
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It's definitely easier if you're in the playoffs. From that sense, this is a completely different mind-set from where you want to be. But at the same time there are a lot of guys here playing for jobs, playing for next year. At this point you're playing for pride and wanting to win as a group. But I admit we should be ashamed about some of the games we've played lately.
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It's disappointing. Knowing how big the Olympics are, it would have been a huge thrill for me. There are a lot of guys [on the team] who you can argue one way or another. But I needed a better statistical year to help my case. I wish I was going, but there's not much I can do now.
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It's going to be interesting to see how the young guys have developed. There's always one or two guys who surprise everyone.
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one or two guys who surprise everyone.
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Part of what we're trying to do is get pucks to the net and outwork teams along the boards, something we'd like to build on. But now pucks are just going to the net. Some of the time when we're getting a lot of those chances we're trying to get second and third opportunities. It's really just getting the bounces.
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Some of the mistakes we keep making are fixable, ... There's definitely things that need to be worked on, but it's a question of going out and doing it instead of talking about it. A lot of the stuff that was said needed to be said.
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Somebody is trying to pass something they have no knowledge about, and it will cause chaos. It opens up the door to recruiting. You can go anywhere without any restrictions or consequences.
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That's a team that embarrassed us a couple times this year. You get up for things like that.
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That's not quite accurate. There are still things to play for. You're still getting paid to play, this is still a game where you try to entertain the fans so you try to go hard.
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