Team Quotations | Page 4

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

After a deplorable day afield, when asked by a reporter what he thought of his team's execution

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where its packed every night, theres nothing like it.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

We're in pretty elite company. I told the team that if we can do something special, go for it.

We're in form. When we make the most of our potential, we can destroy any team we come up against.

We're in for a grind, since they've beat us they've really gotten on a roll here. I don't know if we gave them confidence or whatever. We know what we're up against. Hard work is their team identity.