Steve Stirling Quotations

We missed the net a lot. A lot more than I'd like to admit.

I don't have any idea why. We knew they would come out and skate, and we didn't keep up with them for the first five or seven minutes.

But there was no need for him to lose control in this situation.

It's flat-out wrong. He has to take the penalty, take his medicine, keep his mouth shut, and take it out on the other team by scoring a goal or making a big hit - legally.

For the first 50 minutes, I thought we played pretty well.

I think it'll be a great challenge. And it's a whole lot more comforting to go into the game against Ottawa coming off a pretty good game.

If you win, you keep your job. If you don't win, you could lose it or you do lose it. I didn't make the rules, Mike didn't make the rules.

The initial news was positive. But it's never a good thing when a guy goes in like that and doesn't move. . . . It couldn't have been fun for anyone to see him go down.

The way he went down didn't look good, but we'll know (Saturday). The early report was that it wasn't too bad, but I haven't got a report as of yet. I saw he was pretty sore, so I wasn't surprised he couldn't come back.

Defensive-zone coverage is not brain surgery. Anybody can do it, if you have a will. It takes very little talent. At times, there's not enough people willing to do the grunt work.