Richard Matvichuk Quotations

Obviously we'd want to get up as (high) as we can in case one of the top teams gets eliminated, we get home ice (in Round 2).

Obviously, you've got to respect a guy like that. When he's on the ice, you have to be aware of him.

I don't know. We'll see how everything feels tomorrow. We'll how it reacts tomorrow morning.

We've got to play better and stay out of the penalty box.

I was just in right place at the right time.

Our forwards did an unbelievable job of keeping the third guy high.

That's what I'm going to try to do. I'm known as a physical, stay-at-home defenseman. I'm not going out thinking I'm going to score goals.

We know they're going to come out and be a different team tomorrow night.

Those aren't guys you're going to replace. Myself, (Dan) McGillis and (Vladimir) Malakhov, we're going to fill in and jump into those boots.

We think if we can get out of there with four points, we have a good chance of getting the spot from them.

This might be a blessing in disguise, believe it or not.

They're obviously going to be like playoff games. The way things are looking right now, we don't know whom we're going to play in the playoffs. Everybody is so tight. ... It, for us, obviously has playoff implications and the way everybody has played the last two games, it's getting back to the way we should be playing.

It's still a man's game out there. You should still have to fight for possession on the ice.

I played with Brad in Dallas. Back then he was up and coming. He plays hard every night.

I played that role in Dallas for many years. Hopefully I can do the same thing here that I did there.