Eric Desjardins Quotes (13 Quotes)

Hockey is important, but you have your life.

I still haven't seen the doctor. Right now it feels good, but I want to make sure I see him first. I feel good enough to go, but it's a decision I don't want to make until I see the most important guy (Dr. Peter DeLuca).

It has been all right for us, but we see a change, no doubt about it. We need help from our forwards more or from our partner to help us break out because teams are coming at you with speed and they are right on you. You need to have a quick out.

Their team was really quick on every loose puck and that's where they beat us. Every time there was a battle we came up short.

I don't think we have a choice. We have to be more disciplined and we have to be more consistent killing.

It doesn't matter who you are, you have the right to make your own decision. You shouldn't be pressured to play because you're the best. . . . If he's going there with only one leg to skate, it's tough for him to have that pressure to play.

I don't think they are taking away the hitting or the battles. They don't want anybody to hold and hook and use their sticks. It's something we adapted to during the season, and they're reinforcing it in the playoffs to make sure the game is still played the same way.

Experience gets you through tough times and that's one thing we've proved so far. After going down 2-0 in the series and getting blown out in Buffalo, we played really well here. But we need to do it all over again when we go to Buffalo on Sunday.

When something like that happens you just want to make sure you make them pay. The best thing to do, rather than getting upset, is stay focused and take advantage of the five-minute major.

If he can play, great. But he's got to think about his health first.

We all talked about it this (yesterday) morning, ... A 4-2 lead for the Senators going into the third We all changed the channel. Now, it's 'don't touch that remote.'

Its not that I want to come back to be a savior or anything like that. I want to come back because Im ready. Sure, its tough to sit there and watch the team struggle but at the same time you want to do the right thing and I think the right thing to do now is to come back. Its been eight weeks and the original goal was eight-to-10 weeks, and it feels good enough right now.

Right now, it doesn't matter who we play in the playoffs. It's more how we go in and how we play once it starts. We see tonight how we came out in the first period. If that happens in the playoffs, it's going to hurt us.