Jason Spezza Quotes (25 Quotes)

Special teams are big. That's how you're going to win games down the stretch.

The biggest thing now is to try and stay up all day and getting back in our time zone. But I'll be playing (tomorrow).

He's one of the best -- when you can understand what he's saying.

It's tough to have that happen, but we knew it was going to be a grind. They're a good hockey team. There's no point putting our heads down now.

I think with the talent we have, we knew we were a deep team, we knew we were a favorite coming into the year, we had high expectations for ourselves and we still do. We expect to keep this pace going. We know in order to be a team that wins the Stanley Cup, you have to be consistent.

I'm slowly getting better ... it's still kind of day-by-day. It's definitely frustrating, any time you miss games it's frustrating. But the most important thing is we heal it properly and it doesn't become a reoccurring problem.

Yeah. They know how to win. They won it. We're jealous of where they were two years ago, and we want to try to get there. It will be big for us on our road to try to win the Cup if we can beat the Stanley Cup champions. It's definitely a motivating factor for us.

I don't know what is going to happen or where we would stay or if we could practice. Hopefully, we're at least going to get to practice with the team. I guess we could go to the games and sit in the stands. If that's the case, maybe (Staal) and I will be just there having beers, watching the games.

I thought we played aggressive early.

It was nice to get the wins against the teams we're supposed to beat. What people don't realize is these guys are playing for their jobs. We took a night off against Florida and paid the price (in a 6-2 loss).

You don't want to lose three in a row to anyone. But we've got a good thing going here. We're winning hockey games and we just want to keep it going. The more wins you get, the better.

Last night everything we touched went in the net, and tonight it was tougher to put them in, but you can't make any excuses, we took too many penalties, we weren't skating as much and they took the play to us early on.

It's the biggest pick-up after the trade deadline, in my opinion. We've missed him the whole time. We're already a pretty deep team when you get Marty back, it's going to be great.

You're going to get down in games and you have to learn to battle back to win them and we did.

We're at home and we want to be the ones who come storming out of the gate and make it tough on them.

It doesn't matter what time of year it is, we want to win games. That's good for our confidence to keep winning games. We want to be ready for the (regular) season.

I'm not saying they were highlight-reel goals. He skates pretty well for his size. You stick that in front of the net and you can knock in a few.

We weren't quite the same as we were before I got injured but I'll shake the rust off and hopefully we'll have a good one tonight.

The doctor is confident it's just a strained pectoral muscle. It's too early in the year to try to play through stuff like that.

All in all, we've got to win that game. We had a lot of chances, but it just didn't want to go in for us What did we have Forty-six shots Most nights when you have that many, you're going to win, especially when your goalie plays as well as Ray did (last night).

It's out of your control, so it won't be crushing (if not picked).

He got abused (yesterday) and kept going back for more. He worked hard and kept going at them. He was going hard all night to the net.

We have to realize we're not playing good hockey right now. But we still have one game left until the audition is over and the real season begins. We still have a little time to sort things out.

We have got to play better with the lead. We don't squander too many leads in the third and we don't want to make it a habit.

We're going to snap out of it. It's not something we're in for the long haul. We've just got too good a hockey team here.