Brian Elliott Quotations

We want to prove that we're not the team that we just showed. I hope that's with everybody on our team. If we use that attitude the rest of the season, I think we'll have success.

Posts are your best friends, and sure I got one tonight.

He just dominated in his position, and you could see that as he graduated to the National Hockey League.

Just putting everything in perspective, I think both of us are just glad we're playing in the national championship game. I think we'd trade that trophy for a ring any day.

I think we have a lot left to give.

I watched them against Michigan State and they get players to the net and were able to score off some tip-ins.

Our guys were blocking a lot of shots and that was happening all over the ice and that was the key to our success.

We didn't apply those lessons that we should have learned in the past. It's just another point to look at to say this is how it feels to lose and if you don't apply the things you're taught and the things you learn before the game, you're not going to play how you want to.

We were walking downtown this morning and people were giving us high fives on the street. A lot of people are watching us and supporting us.

We've got a lot of hard-working guys. We've got guys who have, for the first time, spent their winters working hard.

We were on a mission to get there, and I don't think anybody would have stopped us tonight.

You have your expectations and you want to play the same way every game. It's not going to come easily.

We shut them down as a team, I don't think it was any one person that did anything that special.

As soon as the guys came in to pat me on the hat, the only thing that they were saying was just, ?One more, one more, one more win. Everybody's on the same page and we're ready to go.

Andy is just a phenomenal leader. Andy is a very strong doubles player. He's got a strong serve. He's got great hands at the net.

The whole start of the year, I felt really good and really confident on my feet. It's a good feeling when you get back to that same feeling on the ice. You're not second-guessing your moves, you're just reacting to the shot. That's the way you've got to play and that's the way you have success.

You start to understand why you do things. You're not looking at things just from a point of view where, 'I have to do this.' It's, 'OK, this actually works.' If you teach it the right way, it'll benefit you in the end.

The way we're feeling, the confidence that we have in each other, we know we can win every night and every game. The rest of the season, it's win each game. We're not looking to look too far ahead. Now it's just one game at a time, one team at a time.

They score their first goal when we're still wrapped up with what happened with Mac.

They're a good team, getting that many shots on us.

There's definitely some room (to improve). We wanted to turn the ship around and get it in the right direction, but that's a long process.

It's going to be different. I've never experienced that. I think I'll be yelling at the screen. I think I'll be yelling at the refs. I think it's just going to be like watching an NHL game on a Tuesday night. I'll be watching and hopefully give some feedback to the guys if they give me a call Friday night.

It's been a testament to how great our seniors have been and how their leadership has really guided everybody. From when I came in here, they were only sophomores and they were always the guys that were even leading the team then. They've really taken this program from the bottom to the top. You can't really say enough about those five guys. I'm really proud of them and they'll be my brothers for life.

Everybody was putting their body on the line. I know there will be some ice bags out there. That's what you need to do to be successful in championship-like games.

That's always a good sign when you're allowed out on the ice. I've just got to be careful to not hit any ruts (in the ice) and not do anything fancy. Just working that way, slowly, should get me back faster.

I knew I had the short side, so all they had was the far side. Hopefully if it was any closer, hopefully I would've got a pad on it. Posts are your best friends, and I got one (Saturday).

I remember my first road win was pretty big and I got a lot of confidence from that. I think you draw a lot of what you do at home from when you're on the road.

I guess you can speculate all you want. I'm just happy that the team pulled through.

But he taught that back in the day. We talk about things. If things aren't working out quite the way we want it to, then we talk. It might take some yelling, but you convince each other that this way is best or you compromise and hopefully come up with the best strategy as to how you're going to approach that save.

I don't think the true release has actually come. We won a game, but we don't even realize what we just did. This means so much to everybody; you just can't put it into words. Just saying it right now gets into your blood and your heart pumping. Seeing that trophy with those guys out there taking pictures, you couldn't write a better script for an ending.

These kinds of games are always though to play in. You know you're not going to get a lot of shots.

The guys in front of me have been unreal lately. Just blocking shots, as we say in the locker room, organ donating. Everybody is just all out and you can't say enough about the guys in front of you.

The guys in front of me have been unreal lately. I can't say enough about the way we're playing defense right now.

The guys in front of me have been playing unreal lately just diving and blocking shots. They say in the dressing room they're organ donors.

The guys did a good job blocking shots. Everybody was putting their bodies on the line.

The guys count on you to be that wall and I think fortitude goes into that. You just want to exude that confidence so the guys can get the job done in front of you and they don't have to worry about anything else.

You want to do so much for the team, but you just can't. You're just sitting in the stands. You can't even be on the bench helping the guys out. It's just tough to watch, but I know the guys are eager to get another chance this weekend. I'm confident that when I'm watching on TV, they'll be playing at the top of their game.