When you win with a player, you feel good about that player. From the red line in, Jon is one of the hungriest players in the NHL. He'll do anything to score a goal. |
When you're playing against teams who are wounded bears or desperate, they're looking for a reason to play and when you give them a reason, they keep going. |
When you're starting to play catch-up, you have to open up the game and sometimes you come back and sometimes you give up more. |
When your top goal scorer goes out, everybody sees it. |
Whenever there's something in the stomach, you get nervous but I've been assured it's nothing. I'm still going to be nervous until Peter is back on the ice playing pain-free. |
Who knows what happens if we've got the seventh game rather than Tampa. |
With four minutes left, we gave up a 3-on-2 against one of the top players in the world right now -- Crosby. You don't want to do that. |
With the cap, you are looking for players who are older and are willing to take on depth positions -- the glue positions, |
Yeah, a little bit. Especially where he was with all the skates. But we had to put him through this because we can't move him from non-competitive drills and then all of the sudden walk him into a game, which is real competitive and have him say he can't go. We've had too many of those where we lose a guy after the first period. |
Yeah, I think a lot of guys did. [The Olympics] was a lot of hockey with not a lot of breaks. I think a lot of guys had no energy. We just had to wait until the tank filled up, and it's starting to fill up. |
Yeah, I'm concerned. . . . You start thinking in terms of (muscular) defects going on. Right now this is a minor injury and we don't want to make anything more of it. But this is now the third occurrence in that area and that's the part concerning everybody right now. We don't know whether this is minor or we have something bigger. |
Yeah, wait until I start yelling at him. |
You are just dealing with an unbelievable level of fire when you're giving a team like that six, seven or eight power plays. You're not going to beat that team. You have to eliminate the reaching-in penalties. I know it's a natural reaction for most players but we've got to have the people that are doing it, not do it. |
You can see it in our body language. You can see it in practice and in the games. |
You can't expect 34-year-olds to score like 26-year-olds. Those guys have other roles that are as important, but we have to get more from other people who are capable. |