Steve Staios Quotes (10 Quotes)

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.

It was two pretty opportunistic goals by them. That's going to happen. They're a great team. You can't walk away with a game when it's these guys.

We were going go win the game we said it. I don't know if we all believed it, but we have come back in years before, especially at home.

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.

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.

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.

It really is a tough question to answer. We obviously feel very, very good about what's been going on, but with all the changes everywhere it's hard to predict. We think we're ready to make the next step, now we just have to go out and prove it.

That was as big as they get at this time of the year. We knew we needed it. We didn't want to put too much pressure on it, but we certainly knew this was a huge game for us.

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

I haven't seen anything quite like it. We feel comfortable playing in tight games and we've seen the confidence building within this dressing room.