I expect him to be good, |
I have no doubt he can play (another year). |
I just gave that opportunity to Steve. That doesn't mean (Samuelsson) isn't going to. ... He is a heck of a hockey player. I talked to him about it. I wanted to get Steve going and to give him an opportunity. |
I just hope he can continue to get better. He's going to help us obviously. Guys want him to do well. |
I just know he wanted to be in Anaheim, or in L.A., and that's obviously why he left Detroit, ... He'd been there his whole career, so he must have wanted to go. Now, I don't know if this is what he had planned, but that's part of this game. You go where they want you. |
I just know he wanted to be in Anaheim, or in L.A., and that's obviously why he left Detroit. He'd been there his whole career, so he must have wanted to go. Now, I don't know if this is what he had planned, but that's part of this game. You go where they want you. |
I just know that Tock's a highly respected guy, when he played and the kind of person that he is and I wish him luck. |
I just think our desperation at the start of the game was totally different than at the end. You have to be as urgent at the start of the game as you are at the end. |
I know he wanted to be in Anaheim, or Los Angeles, and that's why he left Detroit, |
I like him. He's a big guy, has good hands and he can probably play in this league eventually. |
I like winning, and if you can do it on New Year's, that's good. It didn't look too pretty at the start but we got better as the game went on. |
I liked to see less plays through the neutral zone and more plays around the net, but he (Hudler) played well tonight. |
I looked at this as a five-game mini playoff series. We played Nashville, Dallas, Carolina, Philly and the Rangers and came out of it winning 3-2. With the exception of the Dallas game, we played real well. When we bear down and have a good focus, we're a good team. |
I make nothing of it. If you go to the last 10 games and see who is playing well, that affects everything. Plus, the teams that are out of the playoffs now, they became harder and harder to beat. There's no pressure on them, and they're all playing for jobs. ... So I put no stock in that. |
I never even thought about that. I knew he was playing against Columbus. I never even looked at it that way. |