Brendan Morrison Quotations

We know we're not getting any younger. We're a team that gained quite a bit of experience here the last four years of the playoffs. We've also had early exits the last four years.

Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me.

Goals are like bananas, they come in bunches.

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

Fragile is pretty accurate. I think that's a good assessment of us right now. I'm not saying we don't want to do something, but we're not making plays. This is pretty much a must-win game. I mean, we need the points.

He has a lot to prove. He's a guy that is very motivated. He has a big challenge in front of him and he's looking to face it head on.

He feels he has a lot to prove. There are going to be a lot of questions asked about him. I think come the time things get serious, he will be ready to go.

He feels he has a lot to prove,

Going into to the game, I knew I had to step it up. There's no sense hanging your head about it. You've got to go out and do the little things and help the team win. Last game I felt good, but didn't get too many chances. It feels good to get the first one. I knew it's only a matter of time before I notched my first goal and got a few points.

He was great. He goes for it and the way he finishes his checks really energizes us. It's so important to have that.

Our power play didn't come through. It's a bunch of little things but they're adding up to big points we're losing out on. To win games you've got to score goals, and we just aren't doing that.

My name has been mentioned a couple of times and I sure hope nothing happens, but that's the nature of the business.

That was one of the major points we keyed on before the game -- keep the puck away from him. We didn't and we couldn't get anything going. He just kept shooting the puck out.

When you're labeled as an offensive team and you don't do it, it's a little frustrating, but you just have to stay with it. It's one game, but it's a step in the right direction.

We had a lot of point-blank chances. We had a couple of bad bounces against us early, but you have to overcome those things at this time of year. There's no use dwelling on it, there's no time to sit here and talk about our bad luck with three games left. We have to find ways to overcome it.

We came out, started to work, won puck battles and forced them to take penalties.

We did what we had to do and got the win.

We still feel going into games we can win those games. It's a matter of going out and executing, and we haven't executed in third periods.

We've been struggling of late and we're in a real dogfight in the division, so when we play games that we're supposed to win we have to ... beat these teams. These are the teams others in the conference have been piling up points against.

Every time we come in here it's like this. Every time we talk about it, and it always happens.

As a team we just weren't good enough defensively and our deficiencies came to the forefront when it mattered most.

A lot of guys weren't opposed to Ted but that wasn't the real issue,

It seems like he's trying to go after everybody. He's wasting too much energy on that instead of concentrating on playing.

It was right there for us, but we didn't get it done.

It's a good feeling. Almost immediately it boosts your confidence. Hopefully it translates into some more goals.

It's one game, but it's a step in the right direction.

It's like the hits keep coming with him. Just when you think he can get past that hurdle and move forward, something else comes up. I hope it's not eating him up too much.

That's a play we haven't been able to use much all year because the refs aren't allowing us to. They're always calling Todd for interference in front of the net during the battle. But this time he was wide open. He got great body position on their defender.

I'm not going to lie, when you're a guy that is expected to put up numbers offensively and you haven't done it for a few games, it wears on you,

If he gets the chance to lay somebody out, he will. We'll be aware of him.

These are huge games and these were two huge points. It was right there for us but we didn't get it done. Our power play didn't come through. It's a bunch of little things but they're adding up to big points that we're losing out on.

These last few games have been pretty strange. That said we have to find a way to win.