Dave Tippett Quotes (92 Quotes)

We do have concerns with the perception of our game and the credibility of our game.

I'm more excited than nervous. It's been a long wait.

We've been good friends for a long time. I respect what he's done as a coach and his work ethic. We have a lot of the same views about the game. We spend a lot of time chatting. Over the years we got to be good friends and our wives are good friends.

We need Marty to make some more saves for us. We've got to find a way to win and he needs to be a big part of it.

I really think the NHL is going to stick to its guns this time, and I think that's good. You don't want to allow an inferior team to take back an advantage they haven't earned.

He'll get that taken care of and then take a little time to get it healed. The good thing is, he's seeing clearly.

That was a new move we saw today. He brought that one out of the closet.

I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Marty has been focused all year on the future. This year, he's in a groove. He's just like the rest of us. The past is the past, and he's going to do what he's done for us and play well.

They play a very energetic style, and they do a lot of good things that push the game along. But it would be nice to see them get rewarded every now and then.

It's very hard choices. It's not as if somebody is not capable or not getting the job done. But at the end of the day, it makes us a better team.

When any player goes down you get a little scare, but it's not bad at all. He just tweaked an old injury. When I talked to him between periods, he seemed to respond well, so I don't think it's serious at all. I just talked to him and he was planning on skating tomorrow, so there's nothing to be concerned about. I don't think there's much to evaluate.

It doesn't matter if it's Marty (Turco) or the defense. No matter how you slice it, when you give up five goals, that's a hard obstacle to climb over.

You have to fine-tune. We try to go into each game and say, 'Here's a focal point.' We want to make sure going in that things are right.

That game is a real concern because that's a big division game that you expect to play well in. That was a combination of poor mistakes, not winning one-on-one battles and erratic play. At times, you had guys scared to make a play.

He can be a horse. He's so big and so strong. When he gets a head of steam, he's hard to defend. He's using all the tools he has.

The goal is to extend our lead. We've played well enough to do that. It's an indication that the team is coming around and playing the kind of hockey we need to play going down the stretch and into the playoffs.

I thought it was excellent. We blocked a lot of lanes and didn't give them a lot to shoot at, and on the chances they did get to the net, Turco was real good. We got a couple of big goals but the penalty-killing was the key for us.

There's stuff to build on. We needed to clean up our play in a few areas, but that's a desperate team playing at home and we still were able to overcome that. The bottom line is you want to win these games, and we won. So the glass is half full right now.

We don't feel we're deprived in that area. We feel we have people capable of playing very physical and very hard.

This is the first time really that all of the entities have had a say in it. It's a partnership within the game, and ultimately we can say that at the end of the day, we're doing what's best for the game.

He's been real good in training camp and the preseason games. He's got a real determined work ethic right now and I think part of that is because of the injury. He wants to make sure that he's all the way back.

You put a desperate team on the power play nine times in the first two periods, and you are going to get what you earn. The referees were a non-factor tonight. It was all us.

Put yourself in my shoes. Your team played well and you're trying to make sure you play well again in Game 3. Do you pound it down when it did a lot of positive things The intent was there, and we don't want to discourage that at all.

A lot of these Finnish kids come in look at his work ethic, and they think that's the way we have to be.

Sometimes players find a niche with a certain team, and he's found that niche. It just goes to show that those veteran guys who people think are washed up, in the right circumstances, it can work out perfectly.

Both our goals were hard plays at the net. Brenden goes hard to the net just grit plays. You do those enough, and you get rewarded.

This organization came in and formed its own identity. Time goes on. People identify with this team more than hanging on to the North Stars' past.

Our power play got us back into the game. And we pushed in the third and got the ones we needed.

Hockey is a game where intimidation is still a part of the game, and you'll go to great lengths to try to win a game. If you know a player has an injury or weakness, he becomes vulnerable. He becomes targeted.

It made them rework their plan. He's just so good. If we can clog up the neutral zone and force them into bad dumps, Marty will clean up a lot of that.

The puck seemed to follow him around. He was always on the puck and making good plays. He's not going to hit a lot of people or grind you up. But he makes good plays under pressure.

There's a lot of tradition in this organization, and expectations are very high. The players who come in here deal with those expectations in a positive way, and it pushes people forward. Success is something that is earned, and our players have that kind of mentality.

We got these guys three times in a week, you're going to get to know each other well. I like games like that. For our team right now, it's a good thing. You like putting your team in situations where they have to compete hard, because that's when they feel good about yourself. That's the kind of games you want going into the playoffs.

The last couple games, we have made decisions that have come back to bite us. You have to look forward to the next game. You have to win four games to win a series, and the last time I looked nobody has won four yet.

These moves will provide the club a great deal of stability as we continue to pursue our ultimate goal of bringing the Stanley Cup back to Dallas. I'm excited that the entire staff will remain together and we look forward to continued success both on and off the ice.

Those are little mistakes, but it's not just the mistakes, but how you cover up for them after. How do you give up a breakaway from your own blue line That's just stupid play. There's no way to sugarcoat that. It's just not a smart play.

You go through stages after getting bounced sooner than you'd hope to. You go through your angry stage, where you feel like you should still be playing. And then you go through the stage where you start planning and want to get things corrected. And then you get to the anxious stage, where you feel like you want to get going and get some of the planning out of the way. We're getting to the anxious stage here. We want to get going and see what we come up with.

He not only understands the pressure of the game, but he has built pressure on himself with this thing and he completely understands it. Yesterday, all they wanted to talk about in the media was his shootout success, and he just ate it up. He knows it's there, and he loves it.

He's one of our young guys who has the ability to score and put points on the board. There's always a transition coming over here, but we'll see how he adjusts as the level goes up through the exhibition games.

I thought it was a revved up game. I think that's what you're going to see going forward.

The goal is to win the game and you have 60 minutes. It just so happened that we used the last 20 to do that. It would be easier on the coaches' hair color if we led a little more.