Dean is a player who immediately adds speed and quickness to our roster, and that was a top priority for us. We also believe that he can contribute goal-scoring ability and instill veteran experience to our lineup through the strong success he has enjoyed over his NHL career.
Quotes about goal-scoring (9 Quotes)
Look, they're attacking players so they need to create goal-scoring opportunities. Those are my expectations of attacking players and they're players who are capable of getting goals. It would be nice to see one hit the back of the net.
We expect Teemu Selanne to be an impact player for us, both on the ice and in the community. His skating and goal-scoring ability should fit nicely with our new style of play.
We're a pretty good goal-scoring team, top to bottom. Parse is the high profile guy, but we've got a group of gifted scorers.
I don't understand it. We played two tremendous games Thursday and Saturday. The success of this team is pretty simple. We're not a great goal-scoring machine, so if we think that we're going to play that way we're never going to be successful. The success this team has had is when it has played methodically well, sound defense and doesn't give any chances to the opposition.
Sometimes the greatest ideas are the simplest ideas, ... It just made sense. If we want to become a better goal-scoring team, we should have a better idea of who's scoring goals in practice and maybe it would make the guys more aware that, 'Hey, we can actually become a better goal-scoring team.'
People are neither dismissive nor cynical, ... They believe that the changes will matter and some of the early evidence, such as the rate of goal-scoring, bears out their expectations.
We played very well. I think we felt guilty of perhaps making things a little bit difficult on ourselves. We created a number of good goal-scoring opportunities and came up short, and that allowed Trinidad to hang around for 89 minutes or so when they could have been punished and sent home a lot earlier.
We got everyone a lot of playing time and it was a marathon. Soccer-wise, it was not as productive as I would like it to be in the goal-scoring department.