Jacques Lemaire Quotations

What he's been doing lately, this is what I was expecting all year. He's getting chances. He's more than average defensively. By getting chances, he's going to get his goals. He's there.

We're playing better than I thought we would. At a time there, it was looking bad. Now at least, you look at the team, hopefully that's how we're going to look from now until the end of the season. We know we can look like that. We can be that team. Just got to get it together.

We need to play a sharp game. They're rested. But they got to get back into the hockey game.

Maybe we're looking for some production. He's not at his best right now. He's new on the team. There's a lot of little things that could slow a player down. I feel when he'll be 100 percent healthy, we should see a little more.

Maybe because they didn't do anything. There was not a lot of stuff going on.

For the young guys, it is a great experience. The level of play is much higher than the NHL. You have all the top players.

He's a kid who wants to play, there is no doubt. And I think he deserves another try.

He knows what I want. You want to play, show me you want to play. I'll give you a break, a chance to play. But if you don't show that? ... He's got to take it seriously, work in practices, so he gets our confidence back to him. That's it.

I think there will be more intensity. The game will be even faster, with more hitting.

Playing here, our guys have a little more intensity. We had good legs, and a lot of energy. It was exciting, and we love to make it exciting.

Stephane is working hard, but he tries to beat people by himself and gets himself out of position because he's so excited. You have to be in control.

We played well. We deserved more, there's no doubt. Got to go back at it tomorrow.

We're all excited because they say they're going to take care of the holding and grabbing. We feel with these rules enforced, we're going to score more goals.

We didn't get any break on penalties. Unbelievable. Sometimes, it's a joke. I just take it as a joke.

When we tied it up, you could see the guys had more energy. At that point, I thought we could win the game.

This is a team that controls the puck well. You can't allow any mistakes here.

It's good to get some goals on him. We know in the past it's been hard to get just one by him. Maybe this will give us confidence.

Against a team like that, you just can't make any type of mistake. They find a way. It starts with the goalie. He makes the save... and they find a way to get the right goal at the right time.

I just asked them to play. That's why we're named the Wild. We're wild. Awful period, then great period.

I look at games, and this is great hockey. Better than I've ever seen. You get excitement. You get everything.

If you're trying to find a guy that didn't play well, I would have a hard time. Everyone chipped in and really worked hard.

I guess we just have to wait. We'll do what we did without him in the past and wait until he feels good and he's ready to play.

If the kids were scoring their share of goals, a goal here or there, I couldn't afford to do this. See what I'm saying. I'm changing nothing.

He's a guy who shows up every night. I haven't seen a guy as in shape as he is. The way he's skating night after night, I just don't remember a guy that intense.

You could see how much they wanted to win this.

Bobby Orr had lots of moves and speed. You had to be careful or he would make you look like a fool. Jacques was impresed how quickly he caught up to Yvan Cournoyer one night when the Habs were playing the Bruins. I didn't think the kid had that kind of speed.