(If you think) you can come to games and turn it on, already you are in a frame of mind you should not be in. |
(Ottawa) did all the things that winners do and we're not doing those things. They're a heck of a team. They showed, in my opinion, why they've been and still are a good team. |
(Rookie dinners) even got out of hand as far as people trying to run up the bill on these kids. |
(We like their) youth and enthusiasm. |
[An unappealing conclusion, however you cut it, to this traditionalist.] Maybe people are really going to love it, ... But from an old-timer's standpoint, I hate the game being decided this way. |
[It's a little bit like using a pinch-hitter or DH, but only superficially. The shooter isn't a specialty team of one.] A .300 hitter is considered tremendously successful, ... There's a lot more failure than there is success. In the shootout, at some point, there has to be a winner. |
[KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) - Team Canada wrapped up its five-day camp Friday, a gathering that failed to make it any easier to narrow down the list of Olympic hopefuls. Not a single player looked out of place.] We knew this wouldn't be easy and it's not going to be, ... The next three months will go a long way towards deciding who the final guys are. |
A .300 hitter is considered tremendously successful. There's a lot more failure than there is success. In the shootout, at some point, there has to be a winner. |
A bunch of cowards, |
A lot of guys that had muscle pulls were guys that didn't play for a long time, |
A lot of this information comes to me through you guys. As far as I know, we've got to wait until they take the cast off. |
an infusion of youth (possibly with Alex Steen and Clarke Wilm on the wings). |
And we have another guy in O'Neill that plays off the puck well who will get himself open and knows how to get clear to get in scoring position. |
Are we going to like it? I'm not sure, ... I don't like some of the games I'm seeing now. |
As long as we have healthy guys [to spare], you want to make sure those coming in are capable of playing at a good level and aren't just anxious to get back for personal desire. |