When you have 55 points at this point, you've done some good things. |
When you look at the schedule, these are teams that are right they're all battling for their life. This is a tough point in our schedule. It's an opportunity for us to take a step. We need to accept that challenge and do something with it. |
When you try to do that extra thing, sometimes it doesn't work for you. We're a veteran group. You're not going to intimidate us. |
When you're a fragile team like they are, you're not winning all the time, you find a way to make something that goes bad into something that's worse. I mean, they were getting a standing ovation from the crowd with a minute left. Next thing you know, they lose the game. That's demoralizing. |
When you're a fragile team, like they are right now, sometimes you find a way to make something bad into much worse. |
When you're on a roll, the opposing team comes in a little excited and a little bit fearful. We have to fear the opposition, too. |
Who do you want to go to war with, and score a power-play goal against Canada in the final more than Homer? How can that happen? I don't understand how you beat those teams without him in the net front. The reason our power play is the way it is because of Homer. But you don't make those decisions. You watch those decisions be made. |
With a short (bench) you never want to get behind and have to battle back. We talked about being ready at the start. |
With the Olympics, and the so many guys away, and the no equipment (Olympians' equipment being lost early in the tri), all the stuff going on, we knew it would be tough. Going into this trip, we knew if we could get points (early) we'd be fine. I knew we'd be good today after a couple of days off. |
With the standings the way they are, we didn't have to come in here and compete. We've got a veteran group with good leadership - that's what we do. |
Work beats talent unless talent works. |
You can try to bag the puck out of the zone, but we wouldn't be the team we are if we did. Those were both situations where we had time to make plays. |
You can't be scoring like he is, and not be on that team. It's hard to generate offense without active defensemen in today's game. You need those guys. |
You don't get as many points and win as many games as we did unless you're a hard-working team. We have to outwork them. |
You have to give him credit, but give their team credit, too. They have a pretty good team over there. |