He didn't play a lot but he did what we asked him to do. |
He was struggling early. I made the change to slow the game down. |
He's had a hell of a year, and now he's having a little tough stretch. We're in a good situation because (Boucher) has come in here and played some pretty solid hockey . . . It's a good situation with those two guys. Hopefully, they feed off each other. |
He's just a fun guy who loves the game. Any time you're in a lull, adding a guy like that to the lineup elevates people. |
I got a summons the other day about (it). It's not a hockey-related issue, it's a football thing. And at this time I can't comment any further. |
I remember when I got traded there. I think my third game, I had four assists and I never made it outside our blue line. I still don't know how I got four assists that night. |
I would take a 3-0 lead every night. We didn't quit. Some guys think it's easy. It's hard to win. It's uncomfortable to win. I thought we were into it early and let Colorado off the hook. That's where your leadership takes over and you don't let it happen. In the end somebody has to go to the net. Somebody has to block a shot. |
In your career, it's nice to be known that you stood up for your teammates but it's also nice that when your team needed a goal, you were put out in those situations. |
Janet tells me he's bored out of his mind. He needs something to do. |
We got embarrassed. We know it. We got our (expletive) kicked. (Today's) a different game. Hopefully, in the first period we'll have enough guys pulling the rope the same way. |
We were on our nubs tonight and the guys just gave it their all. |
We'll go with guys who want to work and want to play. That's the way we're going to have to approach it from here on in. |
We've got to try to win 2-1 right now. That's our mind-set. That's what we tried to stress today. (We said) 'Don't worry about scoring a ton of goals, just try to win 2-1' and we did. |
When you get things back to normal, it's a lot easier for him (Gretzky) if he knows everything is normal back here. |
When your confidence is down the last thing you want to do is scream at the players too much. But we were playing tentative and (associate head coach) Barry Smith and I had to get on them a little bit. We were on our heels, and championship teams play on their toes, not on their heels. |