Barry Trotz Goals Quotations

We have needed big goals in our last couple of games, and he has gotten them for us. He plays with a lot of energy. He is a feisty type of guy. You need all kinds of players to be successful as a team. He is part of a good mix.

One of our goals is to have home-ice advantage. We're not going to look behind us. We've just got to look forward. These are playoff-type games, and we found a way to win.

I can't really say a whole lot that you can print. Any time you give up three power-play goals in a game, your chances of winning aren't very good. We had a lot of guys who were taxed by all the penalties these last two games.

He's a great player. He's got great hands and he's got speed. He wants the puck all the time. He got three goals and he will be in the Hall of Fame if keeps scoring like that in the National Hockey League, there's no question. But we never got a piece of him all night and we have to set that stage that way and we didn't. He got the hat trick and he deserved it.

We had a couple of big saves from Chris Mason in the third. We had bang-bang goals in the second period and Hartnell came up with the big goal at the end. It was a key goal for us. They sort of had us on our heels, they were coming hard, but we were able to get the big goal tonight when we needed it.

I never thought of taking Tomas out of the game. He needed to work through this in terms of conditioning. Tomas didn't see three of the goals they scored because our defensemen were screening him. We created the traffic in front of Tomas.