At Christmas time we talked and said we just wanted to get respectability for the franchise. We wanted to be a team that's thought of with respect, one that's tough to come in and play against. That's what we're starting to establish. |
Harts (Hartigan) mentioned to me on the bench that his blocker was open. A lot of the guys were trying to deke and he was really staying with the deke. My mind-set was shot. I didn't know exactly where I was going to go. But it was there when I got in on him. |
I have no idea what he called at that point. |
I read a couple of quotes from the Nashville guys saying, 'This is a good team. They're playing hard. They're playing as a unit. They're playing within their system. Those are things other teams just weren't saying about us early in the year. That means a lot for the franchise. |
I still don't know how it went in. |
I'm a pretty big fan of them now. I had the goose bumps going. To be out there all by yourself, when all eyes are on you, is quite a feeling. It's pretty exciting. It's nice to shoot when you have a chance to win it. |
It came and went pretty quick. It was just that 24 hours that were pretty tough. |
It was hard to miss this game. But it helps that we won. |
It?s hard not to notice him. Even from the bench, it?s hard to take your eyes off him. |
It?s tough, losing like that, one-goal games ? it just makes it worse. We?re just not finding ways to win. It?s a fine line. Sometimes you need that extra push and we?re just not there right now. |
We haven?t been at our best the last few games. |
We just hung (Denis) out to dry. Their third goal was a big one. They were all over us in the second period, but to give one up like that . . . |
We showed a lot of character and I think our second period was real strong. It carried over into the third and we kind of just took it to them. |
You hate to see yourself when you?re on the bottom. You look after you win a few and you?re back to respectability. At this point, it?s a little early to be looking every day. We?re just trying to build from game to game and put some wins together. |