I wanted to get Patty a little more involved. I think he got excited to see he'd be on the point on the power play. He needs to be playing around 20 minutes a game. It was my fault he didn't play more the other night. |
I wasn't sure how that was going to be. I thought we'd be like a lot of other teams, killing 10 or 11 penalties a night, and that hasn't been the case at all. |
I will not win a game tonight to lose the next eight games. I will lose a game tonight to win the next eight games, if that makes any sense. |
I wish it wasn't like this, but it sure seems like it's going to come down to the last game. |
I'm a teacher and by the time I get to school, practice is starting. Katie gets them ready before I get there, so her leadership is very important. |
I'm glad Joe scored the goal. He's been struggling lately. |
I'm happy we spent all day (Tuesday) working on our power play. They've got great special teams. Fortunately, we had those opportunities, because we didn't look much better than we did in Phoenix to be honest. |
I'm happy with that. I don't know why, if it's just fluky we caught teams at the right time or what. |
I'm not going to say consider the source, but why he was the lightning rod for everything wrong in Boston, I don't know. And I can only speak on what I've seen here, and he played great. |
I'm not going to say he stayed down to draw the penalty. I didn't really see the play. He did come back so he wasn't seriously injured, fortunately. |
I'm not happy with the way we played in the first half of the game, but we took control and got a number of scoring opportunities. |
I'm not taking anything away from Columbus, but they didn't really have any scoring chances until the end of the second period. It was a play where we could have gotten the puck and didn't. We were casual and they made us pay for it. |
I'm really happy for him. He's worked really hard for this. It's nice to see a good person, who is dedicated to the game, on and off the ice, get rewarded. |
I've had four guys do it and they all go for it. They all go to the net hard and live for the red light to go on. That's what they all have in common. |
If they come back and assume that everything's going to be hunky-dory, I think they're mistaken. |