Darcy Tucker Quotes (38 Quotes)

It makes you sick. It's obviously something that goes through your mind when you go home at night and you're lying in bed.

We've had enough closed-door meetings this year. We don't need another one - the score said it all.

We needed the point. It didn't matter who scored. One point at a time isn't good enough. We need two points every night.

We've said since the time we lost the two Montreal games, we won't quit.

It's heartbreaking to find out it's not going to happen. You live to the play in the playoffs. Besides having children and a family there is nothing better in life than winning hockey games in the playoffs. It's like having your heart ripped out.

My eye watered for the rest of the game. There was some blood rolling around in there for four or five minutes and then it calmed down.

I'll test the knee in the morning and see how it goes.

Those things happen in hockey. I have no ill will toward (Kovalev).

I feel much fresher than I did when I left the game a year and a half ago, ... I've probably shot myself in the foot in the past being over-zealous with my physical play. This year I want to try to find areas on the ice where I don't get bounced around as much.

It's the game of hockey. He's playing hard for his team, I'm playing hard for my team, and things like that are going to happen.

You live to play in the playoffs. It's like your heart is ripped out.

We have to have some conviction in our game. They're going to come in waves and we have to match that intensity, match their passion for scoring goals.

I'm disappointed because I had an opportunity to win the game for us. As one of the leaders on the hockey club, I expect myself to put the puck in the net when I get the opportunity.

Our guys have a lot of respect for Pat. He has done a lot for our organization and he continues to work hard into getting us into a playoff position.

We'll worry about tonight and go from there.

It's one of the single best performances I've ever seen an individual have.

Even when he bends, he doesn't break. He just gets us two points every time.

We're looking ahead. We're trying to move up the standings as much as possible. We have some games before the break, and we need to win them all.

There are some things that are off-limits, that's the way it should be. Putting a few guys in the washroom, I find it actually quite amusing.

Maybe I was cast into a different role (in Montreal) and it seemed to follow me around wherever I went, ... Everyone is skeptical until you produce. It's up to me from this point forward. I'm going to get an opportunity to maybe take on a bigger role leadership-wise and offensively.

We're not afforded the luxury of looking past any games.

She hit me so hard I thought I would land in BC.

I don't care where you have played or what you have done, you have had some initiation of some sort. We've all done it, all been through it.

Our job was to get us into the playoffs. We didn't fulfill our goal and with that obviously comes disappointment. We understand that a lot of the blame lies with us.

I'm not one bit worried about our hockey team. I think we have the guys in our dressing room to get the job done. We've gotten more healthy over the break and we have some guys having some good efforts in the Olympics who can provide something to the lineup that they're bringing to their hockey clubs over there.

We're going to keep fighting and give it our best shot.

Optimism and hope are for teams that don't believe. We believe we can make the playoffs.

It was a funny situation, ... My son was born and as the nurse yelled out the time of birth -- 705 p.m. -- everybody started chuckling, which I couldn't understand. Then someone said it was happening around the same time the puck was being dropped in our game against Montreal at the Air Canada Centre. I guess I'll have to get the little guy a stick.

I hit a guy. I didn't hit him with my knee. I don't think I did anything in the wrong. . . . I always look out for my own battles. If there's things that come within the game that they don't like, obviously I'll stick up for myself. I don't need anybody else to stick up for me.

I feel terrible for him. It's not an impressive way to play the game when we give up all those scoring chances in the first 10 minutes.

It's tough when you get to 90 points and don't get a playoff spot. We played some good hockey this year.

We're trying to stick together here and do the proper things and do the proper plays and work hard in practice and find ways to win hockey games, but it's awfully frustrating when you lose.

I don't think anybody is taking anyone lightly anymore. The task at hand is more important than anything else. We understand two points is very huge every night for us.

I felt good today so it's really encouraging.

I hit a guy. I didn't hit him with my knee. Like I said, I don't think I did anything in the wrong, so for me to comment otherwise goes against everything I believe. . . . Things like that happen. And you know what To complain and get upset about those things, I find it hard to believe.

Eddie saved our bacon so many times over the last two or three years. It's about time we owed him one back. That's something we deserved to get him, that's for sure.

It's tough to lose two integral parts of your hockey club like that.

I was going to hit him, but I was in a bad position and I realized I would hurt him, so I pulled out. Maybe I touched him. But I could have hit him and I didn't.