Tracy Egeland Quotations

We're in a playoff race. There's no time to put your head down and pout. We've got to get ready to get back at it (today).

What they've done speaks for itself. They're a team with 18 guys pulling the same way. The results are pretty evident; they're winning a lot more games than they're losing.

We're still behind the 8-ball. This is a small step toward where we want to go. It was good to see that it's going to be a long series. We're going to battle and we're not going to lie down.

Right now, every game's a big game. It doesn't matter who you're playing. When you're in a playoff race, it doesn't matter if you're playing the best team or the worst team. Every point counts.

On the bench it looked like the net moved. But you can't really see from the bench.

For us, of all the moves made I think we got the best player that's been moved. For us now, we have to get healthy and we have to get going again.

We've got to go to bed ready to get up and play. When we get to the rink, it's the same thing. Get there, get ready to go out and have fun. It's a great place to go play. It's the best rink in the league. We should be excited to get out there and play.

I think they held up pretty well. We had a lot of skating, a lot of skill work. I think they did pretty good.

I think every point right now is important. We want two, but one is definitely better than nothing. So we'll take it.

Terry called me, and I thought it was a great gesture on his part. We're rivals, but this is bigger than that. This is good for the league, and I think that's the big picture tonight.

That's the toughest loss I've ever had. I'm kind of dumbfounded considering they're the team that played last night. You get a goal a minute into the third and they're doing it their way and they're losing. It's not everybody, but when we play our game plan, we're successful. We're making mistakes on little things that are turning around for goals for them.

We haven't accomplished anything yet. (Today's) an even bigger game because it's a game in hand we have with Austin. We have to go out with the same intensity, the same mindset.

We're not reinventing the wheel of hockey here. It's just simple things, and we did that here tonight. We do that, we can come at you with three lines and keep going and going.

You basically look at we have a Game 7 in our home building (tonight).

Tonight, I think that was as important a learning lesson as well as a win to show the guys here that if they stick with it, what they can accomplish.

We've held them on their power play, too. We've got good chances. I can't say that our power play didn't get good chances. It did. The power play doesn't really bother me.

We finished our checks and we played well and we stuck with it, through good shifts and bad shifts.

Evan was very sharp. Come the third period, we were able to step up and score a few goals.

The way I look at it right now is, these two kids get to compete. Both of these goalies can play in the league. I've been impressed with both of them.

These next nine or 10 days, we're going to find out what we're made of.

Say what you want about (goals) three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine, but the first two killed us. Once again, you look up and it's 14 minutes to go in the first period and we've dug a hole. Nothing went right for us and everything went right for them, but at the same time they created nine goals. They played hard. We have to stand up to that better.

That tells you how good of a goalie he is. It's going to give him some confidence. Whether he just practices for a few days, it's good.

They played well, but all three lines did. We cut down our mistakes line after line. Tonight was the result of good teamwork. Last night it was Phillips' line. It doesn't matter what line scores the goals. When you play like that, it's going to be different players every night.

It's just the next step for us. This was our goal and we made it. Now we have our sights set on the first round.

It's not the time to be too cocky, and it's not the time to think anything is the end of the world. I definitely think they're a lot more confident than they were a week ago.

Even when I played, I've never seen a comeback in the playoffs like that. Scoring three goals at the end of regulation and the one to tie it up, it showed our character.

Everyone knows what's at stake. We have to come out and keep playing. Nobody needs to do anything more or anything less than they've been doing.

It was a pretty emotional two days around here. It was the first (playoff) game at home here for some of the guys. We needed a game like that that was hard fought. Now guys can settle in here and see what it takes to win, and realize you have to go here. Every shift of every game is huge.

It wasn't an easy year. Nothing was easy for this team. You look back from the All-Star Game to the last game of the year, and they could have shut (it) down, but they didn't.

These two games were probably a lot bigger than even the guys realize. These were pretty big games. I don't think we played as well as we can play, but we did what we had to do to win. I thought our goaltending was very sharp when it had to be, and our specialty teams won (Saturday's) game for us.

Not playing at home for almost a month, this is something we can carry into the next seven games. Our biggest focus here the next little while is to leave everything on the ice because we don't have any three (games) in three (nights). We are traveling and out of town, but at the same time, we are traveling. Guys should be leaving everything every shift on the ice.

I just think we did little things right. As a result, we were able to score some goals.

He's symbolic of what our team stands for. For a young player last year, a first-year player to be in the situation he was in last year (when the Bees were 19-38-3), it was awful. It wasn't fun to play hockey. It wasn't fun for anybody to go to the rink last year. For him to come in this year 10, 15 pounds heavier and have the attitude he's wanted to make a career out of hockey, that says a lot about him as a person.

The last four or five weeks have been our most consistent, and they should have been.