I'm a better goalie now from having gone through everything in 2004. |
I'm an emotional guy, but I think for the most part, I've really corrected that this season. When I'm on the ice, I have to look like the calmest guy. That's how you show leadership. |
I'm good buddies with him. He's a great man. I like him a lot. Stuff will come out. I don't know any of the details on it. But I do know that he's a good man. . . . He's a very honest guy. He'll explain his side of it and I'm sure they'll get to the bottom of it. |
I'm not really worried about that. I'm worried about myself and the best way to prepare for hockey games, and that's all I'm focused on. |
I've always been very realistic with everything my whole career. It is what it is. It doesn't mean I'm going to start being a bad team guy or give a lack of effort ... I'm not crying over spilled milk. |
If we go out and win outright the rest of the way through, we put ourselves in a good position. But we have one game, and that's Thursday. Then after that we have one game, and it's Saturday. Right now, each game is more important than the next and that's the way it's going to be right through the playoffs. |
It was just talk between me and another player, that's all. |
It was nothing he did. I was just trying to spark the team. |
It was October when it happened to me. I was misdiagnosed by the MRI and at the end of the season, (someone else) looked at the same MRI and told me I had a torn labrum. |
It's a huge week. The schedule makers got what they wanted, especially in our division. The good thing is they don't have to dictate to us. The future is in our hands and that's the way we want it. |
It's a team effort and it's always going to be like that. |
It's definitely frustrating when you have that many penalties to kill. But on the same hand, we kind of put ourselves in that trap - nobody else did - so we have no one to blame but us. |
It's just talk between me and a player that's all. I'm not frustrated with anything. We just have our hands full and we have a lot of work ahead of us, and that's about it. |
It's kind of weird. I find myself doing some things that are uncharacteristic of me. I surprised myself [with] how calm I am in certain situations. |
My entire focus is on the game at hand. I don't want to think ahead. If you remember, the last season we had, right before we were heading into the playoffs I started thinking about [the postseason] and it got to me. I was letting in shots from center ice. |