Paul Christopher Gillis (born December 31, 1963) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He played in the National Hockey League with the Quebec Nordiques, Chicago Blackhawks and Hartford Whalers between 1982 and 1993. (wikipedia)
He's been playing center a little bit lately, so he can take any role I want to give him. He's just happy to do anything to help the team win.
It has to be, because we take too many bad penalties. If we continue to do that and not learn our lesson, we're going to be in trouble. But the penalty killing definitely came up big tonight.
I think we feel confident that we have a good team. But the thing at playoff time is we've got to bring more discipline and more composure than we've been playing with. The jury's still out, but I think we've put ourselves in a position that we can compete with anybody.
We feel confident going on the road as we do anywhere else. We've got to get something done. We haven't done it yet. We're disappointed in ourselves and we've got to get back on it.
We're fighting for the division title and this is a good step toward that, but we still have a little work left to do.
It's been an odd series for us. We played a good first period and then we let Quad City take the game to us in the second. We finally showed that urgency in the third.
We're starting to get our guys back who were hurt, which is great, although it gives us a lot of decisions to make. There's competition on defense for who's going to be in the lineup each and every night, which is good.
It showed a tremendous amount of character. We hung in there. We had a little bit of a tough second period, but not horrible, and then we were able to come back in the third. We kept fighting back and we stayed in the game. We had a pretty solid effort.
To get back on track against Adirondack, obviously our rival, we had to come up big. I think some of our players responded and did come up big.
This was a hard weekend on us. We obviously didn't give enough. We have to get back on track.
