Mike Leclerc Quotations

We haven't really talked about when I'll play in a game, but I'd like to think that's possible as long as things keep progressing. I've turned the corner and I'm starting to feel pretty good. It's just a matter of getting my conditioning back.

To be this close, they have to make a deal. It would be disgraceful to cancel the season.

You don't really get a lot of hype out there, except when Detroit comes to town. You can hide and get away with some stuff there. And some guys do like that better. You've got to find your own ways to motivate yourselves in places like that. Here? You get a little bit of help. There's pressure for every game, partly because of you guys.

There are a lot of people here who are scared.

I've played with guys that played for him, and they have nothing but good things to say. He doesn't pull any punches. A pretty straightforward guy. Hard-nosed. Pretty fair, too.

They kind of just collapse around the net and let their goalie make the save. They take their chances with outside shots.

It was right before the disallowed goal. I scored the one shift, the very next shift I went out and I fell in the corner. Then I went to the net and banged it in.

It's been tough being away. My daughter's half-Canadian, so she'll get to learn about her roots.

It was kind of weird, coming back to the place you called home for eight years, spending your whole career, and seeing the guys you played with. Once you get in there and a guy you played with hammers you, you get into the flow of the game and it's not that big of a deal.

I've just got to stay patient, I guess, and wait for an opportunity.

I hadn't seen that before. That's the first time. We made a mistake there and it cost us.