Marc Crawford Quotes (45 Quotes)

When we got that third goal, I thought it might just be our night. But when they got their third goal, it seemed to give them a lot of life. It got the building (excited).

We didn't have great games from anybody in our lineup.

We've just got to take care of our business. The best tonic for us is to get the two points.

I thought Alex did things well with the puck, saw pucks well and fought to keep position. And he found some pucks in scrambles and he fought off screens where he made himself big.

We concentrated an awful lot on our start tonight. We talked about what we wanted to do and still got off to a horrendous start. We're trying to make something happen and instead we gave a great chance right off the hop to one of the better shooters in the league.

He saw the puck and got a couple of deflections. Anytime you read the deflections and make the saves, you know you're seeing the puck well as a goaltender.

It was a great comeback win. We used the end of the first period to recompose ourselves. We showed some good determination and composure and ended up getting three goals on the power play.

We have to be better than we were today. We took too many dumb penalties. We keep doing that we keep giving teams a chance to get back in games.

I don't think we were complacent, I don't think that we got the start that we had wanted. We weren't very good on a couple of shifts. We took lazy penalties tonight. We weren't assertive enough when we went to battle.

He made some great saves in the third. He's been playing a lot of hockey for us. We haven't been able to get him as much rest as we'd like to and as much practice as we'd like to ... but he's really learning how to compete. You can see that.

I am disappointed by how things ended here but I'm certainly nothing but thankful of the time that myself and my family have had here.

We'll see how things go. We haven't had a tough schedule the last little while. Now we play every second day until Christmas. That would be a little bit of a load if Alex had to play all of that.

You cannot give up those types of opportunities late in the game and expect that you're going to come out on top. We took some penalties that we were responsible for tonight and by veteran people and those things we have to correct and correct quickly.

You don't replace guys like Ed with one specific guy. It has to be a collection of people.

It's been a very difficult couple of days, as you can imagine. I wasn't able to accomplish the job I was brought here for. I had a vision for this club and it included a Stanley Cup and a parade.

We can't make excuses for our new guys. They're getting an opportunity right now. They've got to push themselves ... those are just facts of life.

Our thinking was last night he was ready to play.

In terms of the makeup of our overall team, we've got an awful lot of players who are thinking-type players. Eddie is in the category of a guy that's very passionate, is maybe a risking personality. You need those types of people along with the thinking, thoughtful players you have to make it all mesh.

It was 53 minutes of playing great hockey. You have to find a way to push yourselves when adversity strikes. Sometimes you've got to push your body beyond what it wants to do.

Those are the ones that drive everybody nuts. Those are the ones you can't take. We tax the penalty-killing unit that's already depleted and we're taxing our goaltending and we're making games much more difficult than they need to be. We've got to shore that up.

It's huge. Where the standings are and to win with six seconds left in the game, obviously it's extremely uplifting for our group. To win on the power play, especially the way their penalty kill has been against us - it was a big part of their game to shut down our power play, and they did a great job of it through two periods.

We're not performing at our top level, and we have to eliminate as much negative thought as possible.

Minnesota has a lot of injuries and, tonight, we caught them at the right time. But that's the NHL.

It's unfortunate that you've got to do these things, but that's what we have to do with this cap situation this year and make sure we leave enough room to have people here as we go on.

The three giveaways we made on the goals were big errors. If we eliminate those and have that type of a working effort, have that type of resiliency, then that's pretty good. We'll take our chances with that type of game any time.

We were certainly guilty of not going to people assertively. We had a difficult time with them tonight.

It'll be spirited and hopefully that'll be the tonic that allows our team to play with passion.

I don't know. I've never paid attention to that. I don't know who decides. I think it comes from the league, doesn't it.

I felt Dave could have gone two or three ways with this decision. Hockey is a difficult business. I think he could have made a strong decision in a number of ways but I'm comfortable where he's gone.

If we think a jersey is making a difference for us, then great. This time of the year the stakes are so high, it shouldn't matter what we wear.

I approach every day as though I can make a difference. And I really believe I can make a difference with this team.

He's a competitor and we've got a lot of competitive players, too, and they were battling him. Sidney is a bit of a focus for everybody in the game. One of the things that makes people want to show what they've got is wanting to show it against a guy like that.

They blew the whistle and we just have to live with that call. That's what they saw and it's probably what happened. They were pretty adamant about it.

It may not have been a classic, but it's something we can build on.

We like the balance that our lines get. I think we can expect more from Matt Cooke and Richard Park playing with a centre as accomplished as Mo.

It is so, so unfair to paint him with the brush that he's responsible for me being here, because he's not. Todd wasn't the reason I'm sitting here today. Neither was forward Brendan Morrison. There's always a number of reasons why. We all have to take some responsibility.

We had to play a spirited game and the defense came up large.

Once they scored on the power play, I don't think we mounted much after that. We were playing a stingy road game and I thought we'd rise to the challenge of the third period, but that first goal seemed to take all the wind out of our sails.

We didn't do good things throughout the entire game.

If we improve the shots, that simple task of hitting the net, we give ourselves a better opportunity to be successful.

Only if it's the wrong message. I know it wasn't wrong.

I thought they were everything that we expected and think they'll only get better and help our club.

I know he doesn't like to miss games but it's the right decision and collectively we came to it. He hasn't been 100 per cent.

He did really well in that (fight). I thought he played a heck of a game as well. When you get those types of efforts, it's really pleasing for the team.

I really feel Todd has been so unfairly treated here, especially lately, when it's very, very sexy for the media to try and portray that there's a problem between one side and the other side.