It's definitely going to be a challenge for us. |
It's getting to that time of year where it's playoff hockey and everybody is playing a lot tighter now. I really don't think you're going to see a lot of chances from here on out. Any time you get a scoring chance you've got to bury it. |
It's just a way to help, ... I didn't know what I could do, so I figured I would come down and answer calls and take these donations that people are gracious to give. |
Look around and a lot of guys have barely had 200 games in the NHL. They haven't been around that long. As a defenseman you don't really understand the game until you're up around 300. |
That's kind of been our story all along. We start getting close and then we drop a few. |
They don't quit. I've seen them do that a few times. We knew they weren't going to give up. |
We all thought we were going to pull this one out. |
We beat ourselves. We gave them what they got. We were playing a good road game in the first period and just got away from it. That's happened a lot this year. |
We can't let this affect us negatively. There's too many games left for us to feel sorry for ourselves now. |
We definitely needed some more leadership. We beat a lot of good teams last year. And then we'd lose against some of the weaker ones. I think that was because of focus a lot of times. The guys we've brought in, they're very intense. That's going to rub off. |
We forgot about that [loss to Jersey]. How about the first, the second? They've all been pretty brutal. It's been a team we haven't played well against. |
We had a good game. We tried to limit the turnovers we made and tried to play a good, sound defensive game. |
We had a lead in that game and we blew it. We have to learn to pull those games out. ... We're trying to make the playoffs and every point counts. If you miss it by one point, you probably look back at this game. |
We had the lead and we blew it. We're trying to make the playoffs and every point counts. If you miss it by one, you'll probably look back at this game, look at all the games we blew, and we've got to stop doing that. We've got to pull them out. |
We just got too far behind and now we're paying for it. We know it's tough this time of year. We're just going to keep on working and hopefully these games against Tampa will be key. |