I wish I had an answer for that. |
I'll have a lot of the guys I had at Norfolk, plus these [prospect camp] guys. We'll only be missing the NHL veterans. It'll be almost the start of training camp. That's how I'm approaching it. |
I'm no doctor, but I didn't expect it to be that serious. He's been resilient throughout his junior career, but injuries happen to everybody. |
I'm proud of the effort he's put in to get his weight down and improve his conditioning. It's important to reward guys. In his case, he's the future, and he's got to see the pace he's got to play at [in the NHL]. |
I'm proud of the way they came back. They're a fun group to coach in that way. They don't cash it in too quickly, but we had a chance to do something on the [late] power play. We didn't get it done, and they did. |
I've challenged him to be our best player every night. Truth be known, that was before the season even started. I also challenged him again most recently. |
I've said it before: You're not going to win in this league with average or below-average goaltending. Tonight it was below average. But Crawford was awesome for a kid that was thrown in there. |
If he continues to do that, he'll be a valuable asset -- especially on a team like ours. You can throw him up front for a bit, put him at right wing and he'll get some energy going. Then you can throw him in the back, and he'll do the job there. |
If we do it again, we'll have to be able to play more five-on-five. We didn't have enough guys for that. |
In a perfect world, [Cullen] should have been here the whole year. He deserved to stay. |
In a perfect world, he would have been here all year. We didn't want to lose him. |
It epitomized this team. They don't give up. |
It happened early in the game. He played through it, but after it was pretty sore. |
It was a feeling I had. It wasn't' indicative of the way he was playing. That's not why I pulled him. I felt that maybe we needed something different. |
It was a good opportunity to work on his conditioning. That's all that was. It's tough to miss training camp, then jump in and be expected to take the league by storm. |