Jeff Halpern Quotations

This is probably the closest group of guys we've had. Trips like this help, because it gets everybody, especially the guys with families, involved. It brings us together. The way our team plays, we should play as well as on the road as we do at home. It's hard to figure out.

That's a team that embarrassed us a couple times this year. You get up for things like that.

We weren't making good decisions at either line, ... We weren't getting pucks out of own end. And in our end, we were throwing pucks away.

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That's not quite accurate. There are still things to play for. You're still getting paid to play, this is still a game where you try to entertain the fans so you try to go hard.

We're playing a lot better, but it's still a loss. We had a breakdown at the end of the second. Then they had a power play at the end and they scored. That was the difference in that game.

Even though it's not the regular season, it gets the monkey off his back, ... You could see once he scored his first goal how excited he got, how much confidence he got.

Anytime you come to play, you want to win, ... It's nice to walk away with a win. It's definitely not the same Pittsburgh Penguins we'll face in the regular season, but we did some good things that hopefully we can build off of.

You never go into a game expecting a cake walk. I thought we played well enough to win. But again, the power play didn't come through in the first period on the 5-on-3. Then, they get that power play goal and we're playing catch-up.

I don't think there's any quit in our group, even in the games that have gotten out of control at the end.