Rick Nash Quotations

We knew we wouldn't have our best stuff. Fortunately we had a pretty good goaltender. If he's not an All-Star, I don't know who is.

We're playing for something. We're trying to build a lot of momentum right now and gain some chemistry for the start of next season.

Personally, I wish there were another 30 or 40 (games) left and we had a chance at a playoff spot.

I'd like to play like Joe Thornton does right now. I try to mold my game around his. If you say four years, three years down the road, if I could be where he is, then I'd be pretty happy.

I am sure if I was coming through the middle with my head down, anybody would do the same thing to me.

I lost five pounds over the summer, and I know where they went. Nash has them.

He's been a great guy off the ice and on the ice. He's won championships. He knows what it takes.

Hopefully, we get off to a good start and surprise some people.

I think it was big to give that goalie a little downer. He just got called up and to get that first one out of the way I think gave us the momentum.

I was 0-for-2 in shootouts so far and I had to make one sooner or later or else I wouldn't be shooting.

I was fed up with (the attention) after a half a day. What he has been able to do on and off the ice has been great for our game.

We had tons of chances. When you're hot you're hot, and when you're not, you're not.

We came back around. We really had lots of chances. Maybe we could have had more than five. But we did play strong.

We just have to pick up our game, finish on our opportunities. It seems like a lot of the young guys are getting chances but not finishing. That's our job to finish and score goals and once we do that it'll take pressure off the older guys.

Tonight we were a bit more simple (in our play) and it showed in the score. The scoring came back around tonight. We had lots of chances. Maybe we could have had more than five (goals). But we did play strong tonight. It was an exciting game and we got two points.

I used to be a center. When I was 12 years old.

It was unbelievable that a guy could do that and stay healthy for that long of a time and play to that caliber, ... I maybe saw it in like bantam, but it's a little different playing three 10-minute periods at running time. It was really unbelievable what Marc did.

Definitely, to be mentioned in the same bracket as those names is a pretty big deal. It's a bit different here in Columbus, we don't have as much media. So to have that media attention is a great thing for me personally but also a great thing for the team and the organization as well.

They said everything was on track, that the injury was what we thought it was right along. I'll take a week off, relax, and when next week comes along I'll start therapy again. Hopefully, I'll be on the ice and back at it in two weeks.

They didn't throw me on one of the top lines, but they didn't keep me out as a healthy scratch, either. I think Dave King and Doug were using me well, and I think it was good development for me. I couldn't think of a better team to come to for a young guy than Columbus. You aren't just going to jump in and be a star player at 18. It's tough to be a star in the NHL. I just fit in and played my role on the third line, and just kind of hit and chipped in with a goal here or there when I could.

You don't see much net with Luongo and, lucky enough, I went for the low blocker shot and it went in. It would have been a pretty down feeling if they came back and won.

It?s a tough job. People don?t realize how difficult that is. I was good at it when I was 12. I seem to have lost my touch a little bit.

It was frustrating. They wanted to shake things up and try different things to change it up a bit. Obviously, nobody was really playing with any chemistry.

It was right around the corner: he was hitting posts, he was just missing nets. Finally they started going in for him tonight. That's a big night for him.

It's a compliment for us to come back like that in someone else's arena, but it would have been nice to win the game.

It's part of the game, it's an injury. I've got to stay positive.

It's still a little bit sore. It's going to take a little more time.

It (the hat trick) is kind of a relief. It was one of the things that was really nagging me.

It was kind of a freak incident. It was a good hit, it just kind of caught my skate in a bad rut. Obviously, I don't like coming back here now.

The knee I don?t really think about. That ankle?s still there.

I just went to the net and saw the puck coming and tried to make it change directions. Lucky enough, it worked out. You go to the net, and good things are going to pay off.

I?m happy to be back in the room with the guys. I?m ready to get it going here again.

If you look at our second half of the season, we came a long way. If we had 30 more games left, I'm sure we'd be right there to make a playoff spot.

I didn't even wear it. I couldn't get it on. It was way too tight. I didn't bother.