Jonathan Goodwin Quotes (8 Quotes)

There's not a guy in our dressing room who feels down and upset. I mean, obviously, we're disappointed we didn't come out and get the win in the first game. But we have a job to do and that's to get the split (of the first two games). Get the split in their rink and go back to ours and the Fort Wayne fans will lead us to two victories.

He's not shied away from the physical stuff. He's gotten dirty a little bit. And when it's time for him to shoot the puck, he's buried it. He's sparked us.

I agree with him. We are pretty average. But there's nothing wrong with that. When you look up and down the roster, we are pretty average. Hey, we are what we are. We can't apologize for who we are. It's just the way it is. If he wants to make that comment, he can go right ahead. He has freedom of speech.

We gave up seven goals. That's not been our (modus operandi) all season. We've got to get back to the basic things. We didn't play with some of the basics.

Every team we're going to play is going to be a better team skill-wise than us. But that's OK. That's OK. It shouldn't alarm anybody. It's just that you've got to (play simple against) other teams to beat them. We have to play the consummate team game to beat them.

You know that if you stand in front, you're going to take a beating. You've got to know that before you get in there and plan accordingly.

I definitely think we're headed in the right direction. But I definitely think, if you look at our squad, right now we're a middle-of-the-pack team. Everybody has to step up. We've got to keep it simple. I don't think we're going to go out there and dazzle anybody with our brilliance, but at the same time we might win some games just by grinding it out, playing smart and not giving (the other teams) opportunities to score.

It's tough sometimes. Sometimes you just want to turn around and two-hand a guy in the face. But you can't. You've got to just calm yourself down and skate away. It's hard sometimes, especially if the guy got you pretty good and you want to turn around and hammer him.