Last year was kind of a new year for me. Everything went well, and I was having fun on the ice again, so it was great. We played pretty well in the last part of the year, too. Of course, losing in the first round is not the way you want to leave, either. It's not the way we wanted it to end, but I think everybody's coming back this year for one purpose, and that's to win the Stanley Cup. |
Maybe we try to force it too much. They have great offensive players and if you give them the room ... plus they've been scoring a lot of power-play goals against us. We have to make sure in those two areas, we can't give the first line too many opportunities. |
Mentally, you hate playing against guys like him. He's not a guy you want to see lining up on the other side. He hits hard and he hits not legally every time, either. I think it's great we have one of those guys. |
Once we got behind 2-0 we started taking chances and that played right into their hand. |
Our goal is going to be to win the Cup. For me, personally, I don't really look around at what people are saying or writing or anything. It's just what we have to do as a group and how we have to achieve that goal. It's a long season and a lot of things have to go right. |
Our job as the first line is to create something out there. It was a big game and we all knew it. |
Our rookies have carried us this season. And they look like they're going to be good players for a long time. |
Pretty good for not playing for 3 1-2 weeks. |
Right off the bat, we came out hard and played really solid today. I can?t say anything else. I think everybody played hard and well. We?re one point behind and we have one (game-in-hand), so it looks pretty good. |
Sometimes you are lucky and sometimes you are very lucky. I kind of banked it off the goalie. |
Starts are important. You're not going to win a series if you're not taking leads. . . . We have to go after them right off the bat. |
That might have been my luckiest goal ever. But, I'd rather be lucky than good. |
The change has been pretty easy actually. We have a good group of guys and an organization that's similar to Colorado. It wants to win and it does everything to show the players and the fans that it can do that. |
The last Olympics, it was very hard to sit on the side. Maybe I can come back and play later. |
There are some big games coming up, and this was a big start for us to win the game. |