It's simply about playing as hard as you can and being a tough team to play against. Through 20 men right on through to our goaltender, I thought there was a ton of desperation and fight. |
It's very important we keep our edge about ourselves as we fight through this. There's a lot of hockey to be played. We can't look at the standings. We need to work each and every day and just try to find a way to get points. |
Johnny didn't have a whole bunch of work, but I think he made a couple of big saves at key times. That's the most important thing. ... (Our goaltending) keeps giving us a chance to win and get some points. |
Johnny Grahame was outstanding as far as giving us a chance to win and that is a very important note on why we won the game. |
Johnny has been spitting bullets at me since he's been here because he thinks he should be playing more. We had decided he was ready to take over the No. 1 spot. Then he screwed up. |
Maybe tonight was a little bit of a let down. But I thought we showed enough energy to get ourselves back in it and then we had a good third period. |
My little tirade, that doesn't help, absolutely not. That's a bad coaching reaction. That doesn't help the hockey team right now. I have my feelings, but it does not have to be presented that way at this point with this team. |
New Jersey must be a very disciplined team considering all the time we spent in their end zone. |
No, we'll rebound. They should feel good about how they played. It's our seventh game in 11 nights against a quality team and we've got to just find positives as we go through here and there are plenty of them tonight. |
Not even in my vocabulary right now. No way we can look ahead to [anything] like that right now. |
Not good enough. Our key guys didn't produce. Bottom line. |
Our best players have to be better, and they know that. You can guys write it, I'm saying it and I'm not saying it in a negative way. They know the real world. Our best players have to be better for us to do the things we need to do in the last three games here. |
Our biggest fear, our biggest challenge, is our team's mind-set. It isn't X's and O's, and it isn't talent. It's what the locker room is going to be like. |
Our power play (stinks). We moved the puck, but we didn't produce. |
Our power play is as bad as our penalty killing is great. And I shudder to think where we'd be now if our penalty killing wasn't what it is right now. |