This is an exciting time for our team and our fans. I'm looking forward to getting behind the bench and coaching the Blues again. |
This is our playoffs now. The teams we are playing are in the playoff race, and we have to play better against them. |
This morning it was a pretty somber room. We addressed that before the game. I thought it was a real gutsy effort by everyone on the club. |
This morning, it was a pretty somber room. |
This was a terrific win. To go through what we've gone through, the guys really pulled together. |
This wasn't one of our better efforts. We try to win every game and we'll keep trying. |
Those guys don't need to practice. They've been in game situations, so it doesn't matter. |
To win a hockey game on something like that, that's a real tough break. I thought we had a terrific effort tonight and we deserved a little bit better fate. |
Vancouver is a good hockey team. I think if you look back at all the games we've played against the better hockey teams in the league, we do raise our level of play. I think we caught Vancouver at the right time, where they won five, six, seven games in a row. They came in and we put up a real good effort. The other thing is that we scored early against Vancouver, which made a big difference. |
We always knew Scott liked the point. He's got such a terrific shot, we get a lot of action off his shot. If it doesn't go in the net, we get some rebounds, second and third chances. I like how we can load him up for that one-timer of his. Generally, it's always on net. |
We can build off the third period. Our energy was much better in this game. |
We couldn't get a break on a goal at the right time, and if we do get a goal at the right time, it changes the look of it. They're on a mission to get into the playoffs and they came out hard at us. |
We couldn't give (Downey) the ice time that he thought he needed, so we had to make a move and take a look at some of these young players because we've got to make decisions on them coming up. |
We got a point out of the game. That's what we wanted to do. That point could be a big point near the end of the season. |
We got into penalty trouble once again ... some deserved and some not. You give up two 5-on-3s for that length of time ... it's tough. They're bound to get a score. |