Joe Pavelski Quotations

The outcomes have been really good. I just like playing here.

Some nights you don't know how the puck goes in sometimes. Tonight we didn't know how it didn't go in sometimes. When you're playing a game like this, it's fun. Every time you get the puck, you think you can do something.

If it doesn't sink in by now, it's not going to sink in. We just can't let that happen again.

If it doesn't sink in by now, it's never going to sink in. It's something that comes from inside and every guy on the team has got to have it.

We've earned every ounce of this. We've had a few lucky bounces. A few teams that maybe should have been here aren't, but that's the tournament. ... To say that we've been lucky or had an easy road, well, what goes around comes around. We were given it and we took control of it.

Going into it we really didn't have a good feeling. We never had anything going and we kind of knew that.

Last year I got a little tired and if I'd get in a slump it was tougher to get out. This year, it's easier.

Penalty kill's one of the hearts of this team. And to come out like that, you saw what happened (Saturday) -- they were 3-for-6. That's awful.

Two weekends left and then we've got playoffs. We're bearing down, trying to get something going here and I think we had a good start last weekend.

We were just hanging on and we were just getting games given to us and we never took advantage of them.

We saw those trophies and we knew what we wanted to accomplish.

To win in front of our fans and to give them something back is special.

You remember the days in the backyard when it's cold and you just had some fun.

This is what we've been playing for all year. To be playing in (the final) now, in the facility that we have out there with the fans, it's just unbelievable.

It seemed at times like we weren't really together on the ice. We were always on opposite sides of the ice trying to connect the long pass when the short pass is the one we need to be making. It's something we need to work on. It's something we're conscious of now.

It was one of those things that it happened perfect at the time.

It was one of those nights, but that's on us. Those things are our fault.

I knew the lane was right there. I was just going to go for it.

In the second period, we threw an interchange at them and they didn't know what to do. They started running at us, so we're like, 'Let's go down low and throw it right back at them.' They came out and they were fading. I kind of gave a look to (Robbie) Earl, they both kind of collapsed and Tom was just sitting there.

I don't really know what happened (because) it happened so fast. Scott got back and he's got that long reach and he got his stick between my legs and kind of tripped me up a little bit.