Greg Cronin Quotations

I'd like to be more aggressive with the timetable, but I like to think three years. That will give us two years of our recruits. Half of the team will be our guys. By then, we should have some fairly substantive visibility of where we are and where we're going to go.

It's been an ugly year for us, it's been tough. You can look at it as an opportunity to turn a real ugly season into kind of a Cinderella story, but it never happened.

Chinese New Year started on Jan. 29. I'm a rabbit, and I think luck is changing for me.

You just can't give up a short-handed goal with 10 minutes to go in the game. That fifth goal just killed us.

I've coached hockey for 18 years at every level conceivable. This group has worked harder than any group I've coached.

It's easy to work in that environment, when you're not losing.

Our guys had a great attitude every day they showed up. That's a lesson in life. Who's kidding who - I think we were 1-18 and something at one point. Who the heck is having fun in that season? But they showed up every day, they put a positive spin on everything, and they worked. And I could say with complete honesty, I don't think there was a game the second half of the season that there wasn't a supreme effort.

Every game we've played has been close. We haven't had the third-period luck to get us over the hump, but they have been very good games, right down to the wire.

The truth is, the second goal was not a good goal. You should never allow a goal two feet from the net with a 5-on-3.

A team like BC, when they get those chances, they're probably going to score on half of them. It's going to take us four times as many chances to get the same amount of goals.