Sheldon Souray Quotations

We're just taking way too many penalties. We were fortunate tonight that our penalty killing was up to the challenge.

Now we have a big mountain to climb, and the road is going to be tough.

I was skating back and yelling at him to freeze the puck. I was assuming that he was going to but he had a different idea. That's why communication is important.

I don't think worried is the right word, we still control things. We'll worry when the buzzer sounds and we're not in the playoffs.

We're in the playoffs, everything's at zero. We're looking forward to going down to Carolina and playing a really good team.

Huet made a couple of key saves in the first, we got the momentum and kept it.

I think it caught the end of my stick. I wanted to challenge him, but it was just a bad break.

I think believing is the first thing because momentum is a funny thing some times. You get momentum and luck and things start happening and you just get that feeling.

It gave us a little bit more of a lead and let us kind of relax a little bit and keep pushing.

The 5-on-3 at the end of the first, they played it very well. They had the penalty killers working really hard. They didn't give us much. Credit to them, but there was a lot of hockey after that. When you spot that team three goals you're fighting an uphill battle.

That was a crazy play, (Huet) was unbelievable making some huge saves at the end. He saved the game for us. He's been really good, but tonight he was unbelievable.

We're still trying to win games. We're not trying to rely on other teams to get us in. I mean obviously any way we get in we're going to be happy with but we had it right there to do the job for ourselves and we let it slip away.

We have given up some leads in the last minutes of games. You just can never quit.

We're all going to have to suck it up here and deal with it.

There has been questionable calls all year long. It's black, white and gray this year, the officiating. You can't blame them, but is it frustrating? Yeah, it is frustrating.

To be honest, I think we've been playing playoff hockey for the last 10 or 12 games. Our intensity, our focus has been there for the last three weeks to a month.

There's no room to get down and it's no time to be worried about this game. We're going to learn a few things from this game. We've just come off a really good streak, we lost to a good team tonight, and now we've got to regroup and get the momentum back.

There's nothing we can do about it. It's a loss for sure and it's an important piece of the puzzle but it shouldn't be a distraction. He's getting the best care that he can right now and we have our fingers crossed that he's going to be all right.

It would be easy to blame the officiating, but you can't.

That's what I wanted to do. But I was as surprised as anybody when it worked.

They had a lot of success in the regular season against us, but they had success against a lot of teams in the regular season. For us it's going to be a huge challenge. We've invested a lot and now is a chance for the payoff.

It's a huge advantage for us. He's one of the best power forwards in the league and that's a devastating loss for them.

It's certainly not his fault. He's been so unbelievable for us that the last guy you'll ever blame for anything is (Huet).

It's certainly not his fault. He's been so unbelievable for us that he's last guy you'll ever blame for anything. ... He has really taken the team, the city, the fans, everything on his shoulders and has carried us right to where we are now.

It was over halfway through the first period. They came out and totally exposed us and embarrassed us.

It was just a few words of encouragement. Obviously, with a player as important as him, and as well liked and respected in this room as him, just to know that he's feeling a little bit more upbeat gives a lift to the team. It was just nice that his spirits were a little higher than they were yesterday.

I'm sure there are guys who take Sudafed, but it's probably no different than having three or four cups of coffee. If guys are on drugs because they're taking a pot of coffee a day, then there's going to be a lot of us.

Because we were down we're going to take some chances and push the play a bit. We battled back hard. We were in the game, we fought hard but fell a little bit short.

I don't know if we thought things were going to be easy the rest of the way, that teams were going to lay down for us. The guys that were lineup haven't held up their end of the deal. To a man, we can all play better.

I can't tell you how much that meant to us.

I don't think there's another goalie in the league playing as well as him. If he had played the whole season, he'd be the Vezina Trophy winner.

You could feel in the third period that they took their game a level higher, maybe two. We just stayed the same, we were a bit flat.