Alex and I clicked right off the bat in training camp, so it's no surprise. |
I was pretty fortunate to get a giveaway by their goalie to take advantage of. |
If we played all season against Ottawa like we did tonight, it would have been a different story. |
It could easily have gone the other way. We're just lucky our power-play came through again. |
It's frustrating. It's not fun, but we can't get down on ourselves. We have to turn this thing around somehow. |
Kyle is a lot more crafty than we are, so he should go in the middle. |
Mats is our best player, in fact he's a world-class player. When you get on an odd-man rush, you know he's going to get the puck to you. |
Maybe people don't notice it but I feel stronger out there. I'm not getting knocked off the puck as much. Obviously I still have a ways to go as far as growing and getting stronger but confidence-wise, I'd say this is the best I've felt in my three years (since turning pro). |
The last two weeks, I think I've been as hot as ever since I've been in pro hockey. It's nice to reach that total. Hopefully I can beat it in the next couple of days and, in doing so, get us some more wins and maybe sneak into that eighth spot. |
This is my natural position and I feel I'm a lot more involved in the play. |
We can't take penalties early in the games if we're not going to be able to kill them. We shot ourselves in the foot tonight. |
We have been trying to worry about ourselves and hope that the other teams will lose some games. But that's not what has happened. [Tampa Bay, Montreal and the New Jersey Devils] have kept winning. |
We owe those guys. They've taken seven games from us this year. We want to prove to them that we can beat them. If we do that — and we have the confidence to do that — we'll show that if we get into the playoffs, look out, we can beat anybody. |
We seem to be creating a lot of odd-man rushes. We're killing a penalty, but we seem to be jumping into the play and doing things like blocking shots to create a 2-on-1. We seem to be able to score and we're finishing those chances and I can't really explain why. |
When you go down like that, it sucks. |