The thing that bothers me the most is I just thought we shut it down. Was our goaltending good? No, it wasn't good. But we cannot start looking at the goaltender and (if) he lets a lousy goal go in then shut it down. If we're not getting the saves, we better win the game 6-5 or whatever it has to be. But to shut it down, that's the wrong way to go here. And that's what disturbs me the most. |
There are always different ways of getting their attention as we get going here. I think they understand how they have to conduct themselves. It's making sure that they really dial in. |
There is no question we have to do a better job at home. To be successful in this league, you have to take care of business at home and we haven't always done that. |
There's a ton of pressure on Ottawa. |
These guys have been skating, they've been on the ice. The big thing is to get them back into our time zone and get their bodies back on the schedule here. |
They care. Let me make sure you understand that. If we're going to get points, they have to be on that (score) sheet. They know what their role should be. They're just not getting it done right now. |
They know it's costing us. I go back to the people we have, eventually that thing has to turn around. I just believe that because we have good players. Right now, we lack so much confidence when we're up a man it's almost like we're waiting that something bad is going to happen to us when we get on the power play. |
They made the big plays tonight and they won the game. We have to play better. |
They started stretching us with their forwards and we froze; we couldn't change the momentum. The more they came at us, I think we just froze a bit and we couldn't make any plays. That's not going to be in our game a whole bunch. It was [Thursday] and we still found a way to get two points. |
Think that has a little thing to do with it tonight? Yeah. We can't have four goals go in our net on 10 (scoring) chances. |
This is a good hockey team. We get in, if we get in, we're going to be a dangerous hockey team. |
This is a sprint right now. That's the way we're approaching it. By no means are we set. Too many crazy things happen as far as this race is concerned. |
This is right where we want to be. I understand that they have had some success against us but I think in the past few games we played them, a turn here, a turn there it could have been different. We are looking forward to it. We are right where we want to be as we start our first round. For the past couple of months no one was going to be able to touch them. So we want the opportunity first. |
This is the time we need to stay together and just get through it and find ways to get one win, and then hopefully we can regain some of our confidence and get going in the right direction. |
This team should feel like we can play in these games. They've played in enough important games and they should feel good about themselves when they enter them. |