Brendan Morrison Quotes (27 Quotes)

Yes, the effort was there but the outcome wasn't. We're just shooting ourselves in the foot a lot of times with mistakes we shouldn't be making. The work ethic was there. We battled back. We were down and we got the point but we're going to have to start winning games.

It's like the hits keep coming with him. Just when you think he can get past that hurdle and move forward, something else comes up. I hope it's not eating him up too much.

Going into to the game, I knew I had to step it up. There's no sense hanging your head about it. You've got to go out and do the little things and help the team win. Last game I felt good, but didn't get too many chances. It feels good to get the first one. I knew it's only a matter of time before I notched my first goal and got a few points.

We're a pretty deep team and all of us have done really well in practice, so we knew we had a shot to break it.

I don't think you will find a coaching staff as prepared as these guys. Did we implement the game plan every night No. A lot of times we deviated from that and, ultimately, we paid for it.

It feels great. It's not really the way you draw it up, but at this point in time I don't really care.

That's a play we haven't been able to use much all year because the refs aren't allowing us to. They're always calling Todd for interference in front of the net during the battle. But this time he was wide open. He got great body position on their defender.

Our power play didn't come through. It's a bunch of little things but they're adding up to big points we're losing out on. To win games you've got to score goals, and we just aren't doing that.

We had complete control of the game until that point. We gave them a couple of power plays and they generated a lot of momentum off that. They got a few shots and they just kept coming.

If we haven't comprehended it situation the last few games, I don't know what it's going to take. You don't have to be a mathematician.

It's pretty disappointing. A couple of breakdowns led to goals.

You couldn't have painted a better picture for us heading into this season. With the rule changes and the type of offensive players we have, the team speed, the way we moved the puck, nobody envisioned this happening.

It feels pretty good. We were pretty excited, and we had our goals toward that, so I'm glad we reached it.

There is no question that, at times, he was more lenient than he had been in the past.

As a team we just weren't good enough defensively and our deficiencies came to the forefront when it mattered most.

The system doesn't look like it's changed a whole lot. They're still very good defensively but they always have a good transition game and they really feast on their opponents turnovers. But I think the game came down to special teams. They got those two power play goals and that was the difference.

My name has been mentioned a couple of times and I sure hope nothing happens, but that's the nature of the business.

Every time we come in here it's like this. Every time we talk about it, and it always happens.

He wasn't as hard on guys as he was in the past. I think that was part of his plan -- to put the onus on guys in the room to take over the team and hold each other accountable.

I'm not going to lie, when you're a guy that is expected to put up numbers offensively and you haven't done it for a few games, it wears on you,

They did a good job of neutralizing us in the last 10 minutes. We couldn't get in on them and give a lot of pressure.

We had a lot of point-blank chances. We had a couple of bad bounces against us early, but you have to overcome those things at this time of year. There's no use dwelling on it, there's no time to sit here and talk about our bad luck with three games left. We have to find ways to overcome it.

We've been struggling of late and we're in a real dogfight in the division, so when we play games that we're supposed to win we have to ... beat these teams. These are the teams others in the conference have been piling up points against.

He feels he has a lot to prove. There are going to be a lot of questions asked about him. I think come the time things get serious, he will be ready to go.

I don't know if we gave ourselves the best chance to win by giving up so many penalties. It's something that seems as the year progressed we got worse. We were taking more.

We know we're not getting any younger. We're a team that gained quite a bit of experience here the last four years of the playoffs. We've also had early exits the last four years.

He got frustrated out there. When you play against a guy like that who's a good competitor and wants to win, plays with an edge, sometimes that is to your advantage. If you're going to give a hit, you have to expect to be hit.