Martin Rucinsky Quotations

Obviously he's been important to the power play. He's a right-handed shot and we don't have a lot of those.

No doubt we're playing the hottest team. It's hard, but we have to find a way to get it done.

I think it was a late hit. I'm not very happy about that.

I saw it out of the corner of my eye. I took a chance and was fortunate to score a goal.

That's what I heard a lot in the last few years - when the team's losing, he doesn't care and doesn't have anything to do with that. But that just shows you what he's about. He never has to speak. Just watch what he did (Saturday) and that should be enough.

We put a lot of pucks on him and we can't get frustrated. He is one of the best goalies in the world and you saw why tonight.

We picked it up in the second and third periods, but we'll have to play better.

At the beginning of the tournament, we weren't playing as a team. We weren't satisfied, but just before the Canada game, we sat down and talked about just going out and playing our game. Since then, we've been building momentum, and it carried over.

There's no doubt in my mind he's the coach of the year. Everybody picked us for 30th. What he's done with the team, the way he is, the way he's coached, he should win it by miles.

Now it seems as though the team's stabilized and we have a nice family here.

That's where we go when we miss home.

They've been on top of everything all season. They're so well-prepared.

They're very important to the hockey team. I wouldn't even call them third or fourth lines. They work so hard and they cause a lot of trouble.

It's a deciding time, you either win or you go home. We've got a lot of guys on the team that will probably play their last games for the national team. We want to give it our best and play a little bit longer.

It's a professional sport. We play here together, but for two weeks we're going to be enemies. We're going to compete for a medal in the Olympics. That's going to be a little weird, but obviously, we've done it before. We're used to it.

It's the medal round (now), so it was a big win for us. We came together as a team.

It was like a game of pool: I called it.

They wanted it more, I guess. Maybe it's a good thing that happened to us. Maybe it will wake us up and give us a warning.

If he's not the best goalie the world, he's one of the best. He was tremendous.