Manny Legace Quotes (77 Quotes)

In my first five years, I was out of shape, and I never got an opportunity to play. That's why I was stuck in the minors for 10 years.

Guys like that work every day and don't complain. Whatever the coach asks, he goes out and does. He's a great guy on top of it, so to see him get two goals is pretty amazing.

That makes it a four-point game tomorrow (Tuesday). It's an important game.

I have to stop those two (shots). I didn't like those two. I have to make those saves.

We didn't give them much of anything. I didn't see any breakdowns.

Had it my whole life. You have to expect it. I haven't really ever done much to be honest with you. Playing in net on a good team.

I thought that was a nickname, that someone was joking around,

Not bad hands, huh He's young and exciting to watch with these new rules.

Jiri is an inspiration. To have a guy with what he's going through and he's still laughing and joking -- it's great to have him on the road.

It's just hard work by the guys. The guys are so dedicated to it, concentrating so much on it. I can't say enough about how hard they work. I don't see a shot some time. It's amazing.

I was probably around 50 (percent) when I came back (the first time). I just wanted to play. Things were going well. We were on a roll and I just wanted to get back in there. I couldn't afford to take time off.

This is the first time I remember winning, even going back to when I was a kid. It's really weird. The guys gave me a good present with a couple of goals in the third period.

We've been trying to get into playoff mode and that's what we've been stressing the last few weeks. You can't take nights off this time of year. Especially at home, you have to come out and play well for the fans.

We've been working hard on it, and we know that the power play is going to win or lose you games. We've got a lot of guys going to the net now. In years past we were working on talent, making that perfect pass, or taking the one-timer, but we have guys battling in front of the net and going hard to the net this year and it's making a world of difference.

I have to make a save to give our team a chance to win. They came in here and played two good road games. Nothing flashy. It was the way the puck bounced tonight, nothing good for us.

It's a great honor to be in the record book. I just wish I was playing baseball. I'd be making millions.

I think it was a good team to come back to. I think we caught them on a back-to-back night. The guys played well defensively. I felt good. Rusty. Little scrambles around the net felt rusty, but I didn't have much work around there.

The boys have been playing real well in front of me, ... I think this was our best defensive night. We didn't let any breakaways or 2-on-1s.

That's just not right. Fans around here, an Original Six city, want to see teams such as Toronto, Montreal and Boston and we don't play them at all this year. That's just not right.

That's different, both games being at home, that's kind of like a baseball series. Every time we have that (home ice), that's like an extra man at home, with the fans (cheering). They rile us pretty well.

We knew this going in, whoever is playing better is going to play and the other guy has to cheer him on. We're both in each others corner. It's nice that way. It's good to have a guy you enjoy being around. It's not a competition.

I really do. I left in two bad goals, late in the second period, and instead of leading, we're down 3-2. Those are two I felt I should have stopped.

The young teams that get down a couple of goals, they try to force things to make things happen. Where maturity knows you're going to get it back in the next two minutes.

I was shocked. I was looking forward for him. Probably would have gone low blocker backhand. But I was looking for him, especially when we went into extra shooters, I thought for sure.

In baseball, they come back and start over the next day after a rainout, even if it's 4-0. But this is the way the NHL wanted it.

I thought I had the overtime winner in my glove. It must have just popped off my thumb.

Anytime you beat this club, you know the tradition behind it all. Any time, any place -- could be a road hockey game -- it's just nice to beat this club. But it's preseason we're still trying to build.

These games are kind of tough because you won't see a shot for 10 minutes and then you'll see two or three right around the net. You get stiff.

They're playing extremely well. The score didn't show what the game was out there. They still played pretty well. I thought we had a great second period. They still came out in the third and battled hard. They got it to 4-3 and we were lucky to get a power-play goal.

In double overtime, when their goalie stands on his head, we're lucky to get a win. I thought we played a great game from the get-go and all the guys in this room played a great game all around.

I didn't see him shoot it, but I should have had it. Went right over my glove, there's no excuse. No excuse for those two goals. Just lack of concentration on my part, maybe, they were just two bad goals.

I didn't make any saves in the last 10 minutes. I didn't make any saves. A goalie has to make saves it's as simple as that.

I feel like going home and hanging myself, that's what I feel like.

They came in here and played well, two good road games. Not too flashy. Solid defensively.

Sometimes that can be difficult because you see so few shots, and all of a sudden, there's a breakaway out of nowhere. But we didn't give up anything.

It's more impressive to me that Dom's up there, you know -- three years off, basically. He still comes back and plays unbelievable. It's like he hasn't missed a step.

I don't know how he's still standing. No question it wears on a guy. We had a lot of shots, a lot of shots outside, but still there was a lot of traffic in front of him. He's still battling through. He's gotta be tired. He's gotta be dead tired. He's playing pretty much every game, isn't he But man, is he a good goalie.

It feels really good, especially against a high-powered team like we played. I didn't really do much. The guys played an unbelievable defensive game. I just had to stand there basically. I made a couple saves when it was 4-0, 3-0, which was really not a big deal. The boys played a great game.

Every game is about special teams right now. We know that power plays are going to win or lose games the way it is now. Our guys aren't getting held up, so that gives us an advantage. We've got a pretty good power play.

It was stupid. I lied to the coaching staff and everybody else just to play. I should have just tried to wait. It was selfish and it probably hurt the team a little bit.

He's a great goalie, I admire him a lot. He has great patience. He just works hard and he's doing a great job.

That's the way they play. They just sit back and wait and capitalize on your mistakes.

I would have rather just kept on playing straight through. The time off is nice, but you don't want to lose the timing, stuff like that.

That feels good, but you need some breaks with something like that, and I had some. You love that sound.

Those are good teams, and they're all fighting to make the playoffs. Every game is important for those guys. We're going to have to be ready to play.

When I was out there today, I just stood up, I couldn't even go down, ... I couldn't put my knee to the ice. I couldn't see myself playing the next couple of games.

I thought it was the best they looked all year.

He'd be a huge, huge, enormous loss.

On the first one, he just kept banging at it. On the second one, he just made a good move. On the third one, he fired a rocket backhand.

I was terrible tonight. The guys played great. I was fighting the puck the whole night. It seemed like I was getting blinded by the last second. I just wasn't on my game tonight. You score five goals, we should have won in regulation.