Craig Conroy Quotes (28 Quotes)

That weighs on people's mind, and I think Dave thought about it and said, 'I'm going to make a change right now and move forward.

The other team was disciplined. We weren't. You give the other team a five-on-three twice in the second period, and you shoot yourself in the foot.

He's been a big part of USA hockey for a long time. It's surprising. He's kind of synonymous with USA hockey.

We gave them numerous opportunities . . . and they ended up capitalizing. It's worse than ever for us.

It's always on. I watch the tape and I look in the stands behind the bench and I see people I knew growing up in my hometown.

That's where we have fallen down the last two years, and it has killed us. If we get rid of those, we are playing .500 hockey, and we are right there with everyone else. That's what has been disappointing. You look at Minnesota last year and they were able to do it. We gotta believe that we can do it.

We've pretty much put ourselves in the position where we have to run the table. We got to start playing smart out there. We're not playing playoff hockey.

We know this isn't over. We know when we come back in a couple of days and play Russia, we have to find ways to score.

That was the difference tonight. We had some opportunities, some chances to score, but it just didn't go in for us. The bottom line is we're going to score goals. We just have to work hard and keep moving forward and not let this bother us.

A wake-up call, sometimes it's needed. Andy was here a long time. If we didn't make the playoffs, there was going to be changes - players, personnel, everybody.

But Kipper was awesome and now maybe everybody in Calgary believes we can give this a real shot. You can ride a goalie a long way in the playoffs.

I think a wake-up call is sometimes needed. Andy was here a long time ... now John's in and we have to get ready. We don't have much time.

I think our team played great -- a great team game. We're back to where we were at the beginning of the season. We're not turning the puck over like we had been, and we're doing the little things you need to do to win games. We were rewarded for our hard work.

We had both our power play and penalty kill go south.

Usually I kind of understand him, but tonight I couldn't even understand what he was saying. I think it was Slovak. I don't know. He was pretty happy, though. It was nice to see him get a couple of goals because he played there so long.

That's been our problem -- we haven't been able to score goals.

When a team is struggling and having a hard time winning you can't go down early. But mentally we have to be stronger. We have to battle back, find a way to score one and get ourselves back in it.

They kept taking that lead back but we said (goalie Mathieu Garon) is going to shut the door and we've just got to move forward.

We need someone that's impartial, that hasn't been here a long time to get guys going to that next level.

We talked as a team that his was a big game. If we won we'd be up by 10 points, if we lost we'd be up by six, so we wanted to put some distance between the teams behind us. It doesn't matter how pretty the wins are, we have to get as many points as we can

I was pretty surprised. I didn't go to the orientation camp and I haven't done a lot of stuff with USA Hockey. ... They're just going with anybody they feel can help them.

I'm fighting the puck so much, I don't even want it. Usually I want it, I want to carry it, I want to make the plays, but I'm trying to get rid of it. It's like I'm saying, 'I'm not going good so I don't want it.' That's not what will make me effective. I'm disappointed, frustrated, a lot of things. You can't sleep at night and think about what I'm doing. I know you have to let it go, but with my personality, it's hard for me to let it go.

Both teams played hard, ... Seven more games against them it's going to be a battle.

We're finding ways to score goals. This effort gives us some confidence. Hopefully, we can get our power play going on all cylinders after tonight.

It's probably way too late now to book a flight on the Concorde, but people can still get the high-end treatment with executive jet leasing programs, ... A few of these companies are offering deals for about 5,000 that include a flight across the country, a night at the luxury hotel and formal dinner. If you've got the financial wherewithal to spend that kind of money, there are any number of ways to do it.

It was huge for this team. We had a bad stretch and now we're trying to turn this thing around. We just had to find ways to win. We're down two (goals) to one of the top teams in their building and we battled back. We're starting to roll again. It's a good feeling.

Everybody helped out everybody else, so it was pretty smooth. A couple of times on the bench it got a little chaotic, but for the most part it was pretty good.

It is a tie and we played for a win, but we do not have to worry about the rest of the tournament.