The last win is always the toughest win. Whether it's the Rangers or any other team, it's tough to put a team away and we are definitely in good position to do that. |
The league is almost treating us like kids. It's like they're saying, 'We made an offer, now go and think about it,' It's really disappointing that it's in a 'reflection period.' It's not fair that they don't try harder. We, as players, made a good effort with the concessions we gave. If [the sides] started talking, something might happen. |
The number of penalties was one of the breaks of the game. Key guys were on the ice for a long time, and they were starting to run out of juice. We have to be more conscious of penalties on the second night of back-to-back games. |
The opponent was always so petrified of him. |
The progress that I've made in two days has been tremendous, ... I think one week at the most and I'll be ready to go. |
The rules are there and there is a lot more flow to the game. If we are able to play this way and not take a lot of penalties, you'll see this more and more from our team. It's not just me. All the guys are excited that we are able to shut down good teams. |
The Senators are a team we are looking up at in the standings. They beat a lot of teams in our division. Any points we get against them is a plus. |
The team has the confidence to throw me in the net every night and that makes it a lot easier when you know you're going to get over 65 starts every year. |
The way this team is built ? and, you know, we're not built on offence ? our system is always going to be the same, so it really doesn't matter who's coaching. |
The way we're playing, we're giving ourselves a chance to win. In the losses that we accumulated, we didn't give ourselves a chance to win. The last two games, the start was a lot better, and that makes a big difference. |
The wheels fell apart. They beat us on the rebound. We had a 4-1 lead, so we have no one else to blame. |
The whole first period I was thinking about it, ... Whoops, there's two minutes. Whoops, there's another two minutes. It's like telling a pitcher he can't throw curveballs because we need home runs. |
The whole first period I was thinking about it. Whoops, there's two minutes. Whoops, there's another two minutes. It's like telling a pitcher he can't throw curveballs because we need home runs. |
The worst thing for us was probably getting the early lead. We sat back after that, but in the end we held on and got a good performance out of our guys. |
There's a lot of defense to our games. I think we're able to play somewhat of a trap. We are able to funnel people on the ice to where we want them to be, to where we think we will be able to defend. It's similar to a trap, but we are playing it a little differently than before because there is no red line. We are relying more on position hockey than anything. |