Jacques Martin Quotes on Chance (8 Quotes)

We had some chances but didn't capitalize, and that ended up probably being the difference in the hockey game.

We will just wait and see. I liked the way he worked today and we are giving him less work the last couple games, have shut down the number of chances. That makes a difference.

I got a chance to see how certain players perform. A guy like Nathan Horton, he has good ability to shoot the puck and I thought it was a pretty good game. Both teams were pretty well-balanced.

We had a lot of shots, a lot of (scoring) chances. (But) we didn't put them away when we had the opportunities. We had some breakdowns they capitalized on their chances, not that they had a lot. But our mistakes cost us.

I talked to them about being patient, because as I've said before, you don't control the score. We handled some adversity. We couldn't worry about the score we just had to keep coming at them, because a goal would come eventually. I thought we were better tonight at getting some chances. I thought we had a really strong game.

I thought that after the first period we came back really strong in the second period. While they out shot us I thought we had some really good chances. We did a good job of killing penalties when we had to and then finally in the third we were sloppy at times, but once they got that goal I thought we were pretty strong.

I thought Jamie gave us a strong game. It could have been anybody's game we probably had a great opportunity to win it with less than a minute. In overtime we had another chance.

The bottom line is you have to play with some pride and keep competing until you don't have a chance. But even then you still want to play, because if you don't change your habits, then we're going to change people.