Darcy Tucker Quotations

We're not going to quit and we just have to keep working.

We're going to keep fighting and give it our best shot.

We're not afforded the luxury of looking past any games.

There are some things that are off-limits, that's the way it should be. Putting a few guys in the washroom, I find it actually quite amusing.

We've said since the time we lost the two Montreal games, we won't quit.

She hit me so hard I thought I would land in BC.

My eye watered for the rest of the game. There was some blood rolling around in there for four or five minutes and then it calmed down.

I was going to hit him, but I was in a bad position and I realized I would hurt him, so I pulled out. Maybe I touched him. But I could have hit him and I didn't.

I don't find the punishment fit the crime in Moe Mantha's case,

I don't find the punishment fit the crime,

I don't know what has gone on there, but if what is being said is accurate, I find it's an (overreaction), what they did to Moe Mantha,

I don't care where you have played or what you have done, you have had some initiation of some sort. We've all done it, all been through it.

I felt good today so it's really encouraging.

I feel much fresher than I did when I left the game a year and a half ago, ... I've probably shot myself in the foot in the past being over-zealous with my physical play. This year I want to try to find areas on the ice where I don't get bounced around as much.

I feel terrible for him. It's not an impressive way to play the game when we give up all those scoring chances in the first 10 minutes.

I don't think anybody is taking anyone lightly anymore. The task at hand is more important than anything else. We understand two points is very huge every night for us.

I don't think it was necessarily just the players' decision. I think (Hartley) should be accountable, but that's not for me to say. It's tough to prove something like that and I'm sure their players aren't going to say anything.

I was looking at the puck in the corner and I don't know what happened. It hit my eyeball, so I tried to get to the room as quick as I could.

Our guys have a lot of respect for Pat. He has done a lot for our organization and he continues to work hard into getting us into a playoff position.

Our job was to get us into the playoffs. We didn't fulfill our goal and with that obviously comes disappointment. We understand that a lot of the blame lies with us.

Optimism and hope are for teams that don't believe. We believe we can make the playoffs.

We've had enough closed-door meetings this year. We don't need another one - the score said it all.

We have to have some conviction in our game. They're going to come in waves and we have to match that intensity, match their passion for scoring goals.

We needed the point. It didn't matter who scored. One point at a time isn't good enough. We need two points every night.

We gave up that first goal, and bang, it seems like we lost our confidence. Our psyche is fragile right now. We need to be mentally tougher.

We're looking ahead. We're trying to move up the standings as much as possible. We have some games before the break, and we need to win them all.

We worked hard at it tonight, but couldn't bury it. The ice was horrible, the puck was bouncing and that was indicative of the score.

I know it sounds stupid, but we're just playing. We're playing hard, but we're just playing.

If we can continue to win, hopefully they can falter a little down the stretch.

You live to play in the playoffs. It's like your heart is ripped out.

You want it? Work for it.

I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.

Maybe I was cast into a different role (in Montreal) and it seemed to follow me around wherever I went, ... Everyone is skeptical until you produce. It's up to me from this point forward. I'm going to get an opportunity to maybe take on a bigger role leadership-wise and offensively.

We're trying to stick together here and do the proper things and do the proper plays and work hard in practice and find ways to win hockey games, but it's awfully frustrating when you lose.

There are a lot of veteran guys in the NHL laughing right now,

Those things happen in hockey. I have no ill will toward (Kovalev).

We've played with each other long enough to know where to go and what to do.

Eddie saved our bacon so many times over the last two or three years. It's about time we owed him one back. That's something we deserved to get him, that's for sure.

Sometimes you have to go through a whirlwind to get stronger.

After everything that was said about us golfing, we wanted to come in here and play well.

There's a lot of veteran guys in the NHL laughing, right now,

It was swift and they didn't let it linger, which was nice. I'm glad it's over. I'm indifferent. It's not up to me to decide, that's not my place.

It's a win, let's put it that way.

It's tough to lose two integral parts of your hockey club like that.

It's one of the single best performances I've ever seen an individual have.

It's the game of hockey. He's playing hard for his team, I'm playing hard for my team, and things like that are going to happen.

It just happens. It's part of being a rookie.

It makes you sick. It's obviously something that goes through your mind when you go home at night and you're lying in bed.

It makes you sick. Eyes are a precious thing.

It's heartbreaking to find out it's not going to happen. You live to the play in the playoffs. Besides having children and a family there is nothing better in life than winning hockey games in the playoffs. It's like having your heart ripped out.

It's tough when you get to 90 points and don't get a playoff spot. We played some good hockey this year.

The not gaining ground part is tough but until we're mathematically eliminated we're going to keep battling and clawing and fighting.

Even when he bends, he doesn't break. He just gets us two points every time.

It's disappointing because you sit there at the end of the game and the other team is looking over at you and laughing. It's not a fun thing, that's for sure.

I've had too many missed chances. The puck hasn't been going in.

It was in the heat of the moment. I didn't really know what the penalty was for until I got to the dressing room. It was one of those things that happens in a game. Hopefully they will consider that.

Things happen at the back of the bus the coach never knows about. It just happens - it's part of being a rookie.

I'm not one bit worried about our hockey team. I think we have the guys in our dressing room to get the job done. We've gotten more healthy over the break and we have some guys having some good efforts in the Olympics who can provide something to the lineup that they're bringing to their hockey clubs over there.

I'm disappointed because I had an opportunity to win the game for us. As one of the leaders on the hockey club, I expect myself to put the puck in the net when I get the opportunity.

I'll test the knee in the morning and see how it goes.

I hit a guy. I didn't hit him with my knee. Like I said, I don't think I did anything in the wrong, so for me to comment otherwise goes against everything I believe. . . . Things like that happen. And you know what? To complain and get upset about those things, I find it hard to believe.

I hit a guy. I didn't hit him with my knee. I don't think I did anything in the wrong. . . . I always look out for my own battles. If there's things that come within the game that they don't like, obviously I'll stick up for myself. I don't need anybody else to stick up for me.

I could have hit him and I didn't.