Scott Gardiner Quotations

We're going to go after them by doing the same things we've talked about all year. And that's tightening up in our own zone, opening it up in the offensive zone like we have been the past month or so, and 60 minutes of effort.

Going into next season, our guys are going to know how to battle every night.

Jeremy was unbelievable. He gives up one goal last night and one tonight ? he certainly did his job.

We had a long heart-to-heart with our team. It's frustrating to come home and not get the effort from the team. We've lost confidence in ourselves and our team and we've got to get back on track.

We didn't even wake up until the third period. We've been off two weeks, and it was their home opener, and they had more jump and just flat outplayed us for the first two and a half periods.

We let that one go. We had them. We stopped moving our feet in the third and let them back in.

We kept our focus for three periods tonight. When we had a breakdown tonight, we were able to bounce back quickly. We shook up the lines a little bit, too.

We just have to take the last 10 minutes of the game tonight and roll it into tomorrow. We have to come out and play like we're not going to wait around to get it going like we did tonight.

We're part of a professional team and a professional league and it's run like that. To me, it's night and day. We've had plenty of players knocking on our door, whereas that wasn't the case with the Enforcers and what we were putting on the ice.

After going through my experiences with the Enforcers, I knew we had to have local ownership. The way it was (with the Enforcers) was not working. That's where Steve (Fournier) came in.

That really hurt. Since then, mentally we haven't been able to get ourselves back in the game.

It was a great weekend for us. To get the four points is big, getting over .500 is big, but it's how we did it - with so many different guys doing different things. It's important for us to know we can win with different combinations and with different guys stepping up.

I liked our effort. We worked so hard, and I'm so proud of how our guys came together at the end of the season to play their best hockey of the year, and I can't thank them enough for that.