Paul Gillis Quotations

We feel confident going on the road as we do anywhere else. We've got to get something done. We haven't done it yet. We're disappointed in ourselves and we've got to get back on it.

We're fighting for the division title and this is a good step toward that, but we still have a little work left to do.

We're starting to get our guys back who were hurt, which is great, although it gives us a lot of decisions to make. There's competition on defense for who's going to be in the lineup each and every night, which is good.

Obviously, we didn't (envision a 0-2 deficit). We thought we were going to come out and play like we should play the first two games, and we have not. If you don't, you're not going to win and that's what has really happened over the last two games.

What else could we do but turn it up. We did and now we're still in the series.

We've got to maintain our discipline and we've got to maintain composure (today in Game 2). We've got to come out and play hard for 60 minutes.

To get back on track against Adirondack, obviously our rival, we had to come up big. I think some of our players responded and did come up big.

He's been playing center a little bit lately, so he can take any role I want to give him. He's just happy to do anything to help the team win.

We lost our discipline and we lost our composure, and at this time of year you need that. You can't lose focus of what you're doing. If something bad happens, you've got to stick to the plan and keep working.

We lost our composure for six or seven minutes and that cost us. It doesn't surprise me (because) that's been our biggest issue all year is having discipline and having composure. This time of year, it's magnified and you have to be even stronger and you've got to have a stronger will and stay in the hockey game.

I think it's going to do a lot of good for the city. I think that it's going to help out by cleaning up the houses, some of the streets.

I think we feel confident that we have a good team. But the thing at playoff time is we've got to bring more discipline and more composure than we've been playing with. The jury's still out, but I think we've put ourselves in a position that we can compete with anybody.

It gives us quality players back there and lots of depth. For a while there, we were playing with five 'D' for a whole month, I think and for a while we played with four 'D' for a little bit. You need the depth as you move on.

I thought he was great tonight. And that's the way we need him to play every night. With that same intensity and that same drive. He's a fantastic player when he's competing and playing hard.

That was a great play by Troy. That was another case of our guys playing with great heart.

That's the way we're supposed to play. And (the Game 5 loss) wasn't the way we were supposed to play. If we work for 60 minutes, we've got a good hockey team. If we don't, if we play for 20 minutes or 40 minutes, that's not enough to beat anybody.

We have another couple minutes to enjoy it. Then we have to start working on tomorrow.

We played well in the first, and we didn't play well after that. Obviously, that's not good enough. We can't play 20 minutes.

We played 60 minutes. We defended with energy and we played with urgency.

This was a hard weekend on us. We obviously didn't give enough. We have to get back on track.

What killed us early was a lack of discipline and what saved us late was playing with discipline.

We just played smart, worked extremely hard. We did the little things we were working on, we did them well and we had success.

Anybody you play is going to be a battle. We expect (Quad City) to give us a fight for our lives.

The big thing is that we have to get our two points. We're in a battle here and every game is important.

It was far more interesting than we wanted, but we're happy we got two points. We obviously can't continue to play like that and expect to win our games, so we're going to have to learn our lesson.

It showed a tremendous amount of character. We hung in there. We had a little bit of a tough second period, but not horrible, and then we were able to come back in the third. We kept fighting back and we stayed in the game. We had a pretty solid effort.

It's been an odd series for us. We played a good first period and then we let Quad City take the game to us in the second. We finally showed that urgency in the third.

At this time of year, every two points is a good win. We'll take it, and we have to try and get two more tomorrow.

Their goalie certainly played well, but we did not have the urgency we needed at the beginning of the game. For the first half of that game, we did not have the urgency that we needed. You've got to play like that for 60 minutes.

It has to be, because we take too many bad penalties. If we continue to do that and not learn our lesson, we're going to be in trouble. But the penalty killing definitely came up big tonight.