There were a lot of people trying to answer questions that just weren't answerable at the time, ... You just had to work through it, day by day. It took a while, but I think we finally figured it out. |
There's a little excitement around here right now. We feel like we have a great opportunity. You can put it on paper or talk about it all you want, but you've still got to go out and get it done. |
There's a lot of expectations now throughout the league to kind of resurrect the game and make it exciting. |
They allow you the wide shots so the shots are very misleading (shots on goal statistics). It's hard to find a way to get the puck to the middle. |
They got a pretty good deal in Dallas for a so-called washed-up guy. |
They made the most of the power play. |
They probably could have put more money out there and I would have probably still stayed here. Towards the end of your career you just want to be successful, you want to have a great team, and have fun playing. And that was the case here. |
They're all 19, 20, 21, the same age we were when we were coming in for the Canada Cup in '91. Either this one or the next Olympics will be their time to take over. |
They're all 19, 20, 21, the same age we were when we were coming in for the Canada Cup in '91. Either this one or the next Olympics will be their time to take over. |
They're playing desperate hockey so we knew it would be a tight game and they would be aggressive. We knew it would be a good test and we wanted to see how we'd respond. |
This is just a good break, |
This is kind of the domino effect from baseball that's kind of trickled into the other sports. |
Those guys are quick and they move a lot, and I think that helps us. And you can tell they're excited to be out there. It just gives us a different option. |
Those were tough games to get up for motivation-wise because of our situation; we couldn't go up or down. There was no way to approach those games against those teams. |
Time is of the essence, and it's running out. We all feel we've been playing really decent hockey. You can't question the effort. |