Chris Drury Quotations

Personally, I think he's the real deal. I've skated with him and have seen what he can do. But it's hard where everywhere he goes there's a press conference. It would be good for people to let him be a kid in the league and be a rookie and let him adjust as he goes.

He (Miller) is so mentally tough. Despite not having any NHL playoff games under his belt, he'll respond well.

He seems like a solid, well put-together kid. He kept his nose right in there and wasn't shying away. If he keeps getting better every practice, he's going to be a pretty good player.

This was a good game on our part in the desperate part of the game.

Just simple stuff, little 5-foot passes, simple passes, we were just missing them.

I think it's hard to project what a guy's going to do, one year out of college, one year in pro. It's a lot of pressure on a kid. But overall he's handled it extremely well.

I think the important thing is we've just got to grow as a team. You can't just learn and grow together with wins, you also have to do it with losses.

I think we're pretty fearless. We just kind of find a way. Nothing really fazes us.

I think it was exactly what we needed. Hopefully, it translates (tonight). I don't know if payback is the right word, but it's nice when you get blown out like that to have a game right away against the same team.

I think it starts with goaltending. They've been giving us great games and we have a lot of confidence to play our game and do the things we need to do offensively.

I was lying in bed one night and couldn't sleep, and it just dawned on me there wasn't one in here. I think it should be here.

Our power play certainly wasn't as sharp as it was the previous game. They got a couple of bounces in the second period and that's your game.

Our schedule is extremely condensed, but I think a lot of it is just keeping your focus, especially if you get on a good roll. You've just got to focus each and every game and get prepared mentally and physically for the next outing, because there's not much time between games.

It exemplifies a little bit of our season. There's no quit no matter what's left on the clock or what the situation is.

That was a pretty good effort right from the start. We've come a long way. The beatings they put on us were the low point, but we responded and stuck together, and to come out with a game like that is pretty nice to see.

We wanted to go out with a bang. We wanted to give our fans something to remember before we went away. I was pretty proud of our team.

We're unflappable on the road. We seem to be fearless right now.

Those were some tough losses. Responding to them was a pretty big step for our team confidence-wise.

We definitely had the bounces going our way.

The rebound was there, and I just kind of tried to whack it and it found a hole and crossed the line.

When I see a 240-pound guy diving around like a squirt after taking one of our guys' knees out? I don't feel too good. I kind of feel embarrassed for him, actually.

We were down, 2-0, on the road, but we still seem to find a way. It's been amazing.

We've proven to ourselves in here (how good they can be)and ultimately that is the important thing.

We got some bounces that went our way. It was a pretty ugly game.

There would be games where he would absolutely dominate and then he'd come to the locker room and tell us how poorly he had played.

There would be games he dominated and afterward he'd be saying how bad he played. He's never satisfied.

These European teams are well-oiled machines. They get up by a goal and it's lockdown time.

These European teams are well-oiled machines. They get up by a goal, and it's lockdown time.

As a group we're kind of limping in there, so despite being one point away it's still a frustrating night. We came here to get two points, and we didn't.

That's more our game. We were able to play our style. But we'll take them any way we can get them right now.

They've been skating the heck out of him. Obviously, a game is different than practice, but he's been working extremely hard. I wouldn't be surprised if he slides right in and does well right off the bat.

It's not something I sit up thinking about to complete me as a player, but once we get into it I'm going to want to win like crazy. I definitely want to win the tournament, and if that comes with gold that would be awesome.

It's probably a good thing to fly under the radar a little bit. Like any other poll or prediction, you want to be on top at the end, not the beginning.

It's great when he's on because he can find the net. As he gets older, I think he'll be less streaky and just more consistent. But he's doing all right as a streaky guy right now anyway.

It was kind of a strange 10 or 15 minutes. Whoever we got, we got. Either way, I think we'll be ready.

It was gutsy. There's another word I could use for that, but it's gutsy to come down and have the patience and the presence to pull off a move like that on Dom.

I'm sure I'm not going to be sitting around, telling stories about it.

I definitely follow them in games like this.