I knew it was going to be difficult to sign everybody, ... I prepared for it that way in the summer, coming in in the best shape I could be in, ready to take on the responsibility of playing night in and night out. |
I met him three minutes ago. |
I think everybody came out and did a tremendous job. It's going to be a battle every night and we have to be ready for that. |
I think the one thing we're trying to focus on is not worrying about X's and O's and trying to do this and trying to do that. Let's just play hard. Let's get our intensity level up. Let's try to get that as high as it can go, and I think everything will fall into place from here. |
I think we met for the first time like three minutes ago. We want to get things going, get that chemistry started that everyone talks about. Me and Jordan will get to know each other pretty good. |
It doesn't matter whether you get beat 100-0 or 1-0, it all counts as one game. That's the way we look at it. We did some good things the other night, and obviously we did some bad things. We'll build on the good things and correct the bad things and come out with a better effort. |
It never came up. He's a real good guy. That was just some silly thing. I don't know. It never came up, but he's a really good guy. |
It's actually nice to play this much. It's what you want. You get into a nice rhythm. That's what you work hard for in the summer, and it's nice to get rewarded when you play a game and you feel good after the game and you feel good the next day. It kind of validates why you work so hard in the summer. |
It's always nice to play well when you have something like that coming up. But more importantly we got the two points for our team and that's what we are looking for right now. After Saturday's game [in Boston] I'll be full red, white and blue. So I'll just keep rolling and see what happens. |
It's an honor that I've been waiting for, and that I'm ready for. |
It's definitely frustrating. We're doing everything we can to get out of it. We had a two-goal lead, but they were able to fight back. |
It's focus time. It's time for no mistakes. We are trying to make a run here and that's our mind frame. We are taking it one game at a time. |
It's huge. It was just a great team effort. The guys got it done at the end. We just kept grinding and battling and I was able to make some saves. |
It's nice to know you can go through it. I never doubted myself. |
It's not the ideal way you'd like to prepare for a game, but it's that switch -- that competitive juice -- that just turns on and you're ready to go. |