Steve Staios Quotations

I could hear them in the locker room saying 'Throw the puck to the net,'.

We don't call it that. We call it pressing.

Anytime you give up a lead in a game, the next one seems like every play is life or death.

Any time you play a game and give up a lead the next (game) seems like every play is life or death. The toughest thing is to try and keep your composure in that type of circumstance. We knew we really needed it. We didn't want to put too much pressure on it but this was a huge game for us.

I don't think you'll see such dramatic changes, ... There will be some advantages for guys, and some disadvantages for others. Not being a 225-pound defenceman, I think that's going to be an advantage for me personally.

It was incredible, really. When you're the home team in something like that, it's not hard to run around and make stupid plays.

We're not sure exactly what it is. We want to get back to playing with some intensity at home.

There is only so much you can do with that much talent on the ice.

You can't have enough leadership. To me a great leader is someone who plays every game with his heart on his sleeve. That's Gator.

Juice is a competitor. He's played some great games for us in this stretch, ... I know he wants those goals back, but that's the time we have to bail him out at the other end of the rink. The one off the crossbar could have made a difference. We have to have the ability to have a big game offensively for him.