John Grahame Quotes (35 Quotes)

I knew it was going to be difficult to sign everybody, ... I prepared for it that way in the summer, coming in in the best shape I could be in, ready to take on the responsibility of playing night in and night out.

We like to start building some team chemistry. Me and Jordan are getting to know each other pretty good.

I don't think it really enters your mind, ... You control what you can control. You go out and play well and that's all you can do. It's pointless to sit and think why is this happening or why is that happening. You go out and do what you can do. The rest of it should take care of itself.

They played us very tough. And Luongo is a good goalie. He gives them a chance every night.

I don't know why you ever would. I'm sure there are doubters out there, but all that matters is what we believe in here. We never lost doubt or confidence or anything. Anybody can think what they want, but the most important thing is what we think.

Sometimes the team needs you to make 10 out of 10 saves instead of nine out of 10,

A lot of guys just got off the flight yesterday. There's no excuses but that's the reality.

It's actually nice to play this much. It's what you want. You get into a nice rhythm. That's what you work hard for in the summer, and it's nice to get rewarded when you play a game and you feel good after the game and you feel good the next day. It kind of validates why you work so hard in the summer.

Those 10 to 15 seconds made the whole experience worth it.

You know in a game like this that one mistake could cost you. You don't want to have that mistake on your side. That's what drives you. No mistakes that will cost you the game. Stay focused.

Maybe they had a rhyme and reason for everything, but it would have been nice to maybe communicate what the rhyme and reason was. You know, just so you're not left in the dark. But I didn't get an answer and that was the frustrating part.

I don't know Robert at all. Actually, this will be the first time I meet him. He called me a month ago and said some type of quote appeared. I never read it. He said whatever it was, it was taken out of context.

We're going to make some corrections. We've got to bear down on our power plays and bury our chances. We've got to capitalize on some of our opportunities and play solid defensively.

It doesn't matter whether you get beat 100-0 or 1-0, it all counts as one game. That's the way we look at it. We did some good things the other night, and obviously we did some bad things. We'll build on the good things and correct the bad things and come out with a better effort.

I didn't know that until just now. I was just focused on whenever I did get a shot, to make the stop. It was a good job by the team.

It's focus time. It's time for no mistakes. We are trying to make a run here and that's our mind frame. We are taking it one game at a time.

There's no excuses, apologies in a few of the things went wrong. It's my fault. ... When you're confident and things are going your way, the puck looks like a beach ball. Right now, they're finding the cracks.

During the lockout, I must've watched Miracle 80 to 100 times. It just always seemed to be on, and every time it was on I watched it. You never get sick of seeing it.

I think we met for the first time like three minutes ago. We want to get things going, get that chemistry started that everyone talks about. Me and Jordan will get to know each other pretty good.

Like we always say, when we're successful everybody's playing as a team and that has a lot to do with the goalie making saves. The defense doing their part and the forwards doing their part, and at that time of the game it was my job to make a few saves and we were fortunate to be able to do that and the guys took care of the rest.

They have so much firepower, you have to try to match their intensity. You give them an inch and they'll score a dozen goals.

I have to be more consistent night in and night out.

There wasn't much to shoot at. I thought I was there, and obviously he's got (90) points for a reason.

When you grow up in the same country, playing, there's something there.

The past month or so that we've had success, we are just competing and battling with a never-say-die attitude. We know we need points. Unfortunately we dug ourselves a hole but I think it shows great character that we came back out and continued to battle. We weren't going to take no for an answer tonight and the guys really responded.

I haven't heard or seen them, but I'm sure they are not good. I guess I'll take advice my parents gave me that if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything.

Ever since Burke has come in here, I've heard nothing but good things about him, and that's all I've seen, ... The two or three weeks that I've known him, he's been a great guy, we've hung out and it's going to be a great relationship.

You've got to want that pressure on your shoulders. I definitely want the opportunity if I get it.

Some of the guys mentioned we haven't won here in a long time. We just had to keep grinding. We were trying to get that monkey off our back, get two points and continue the roll we're on.

Somebody mentioned we hadn't won here in a long time. It was nice to get the monkey off our back and continue to play the way we've been playing.

It's huge. It was just a great team effort. The guys got it done at the end. We just kept grinding and battling and I was able to make some saves.

Feels good to be able to make some saves and be out there battling.

I think everybody came out and did a tremendous job. It's going to be a battle every night and we have to be ready for that.

It's an honor that I've been waiting for, and that I'm ready for.

I just think we have a very resilient bunch of guys. We've been there, we learn from our mistakes pretty quick. We go out and correct something that went wrong and go out and apply it to the next game. I think maybe that's the biggest thing we are able to do.