Mike Kitchen Quotes on Time (12 Quotes)

We got into penalty trouble once again ... some deserved and some not. You give up two 5-on-3s for that length of time ... it's tough. They're bound to get a score.

You know his personality, I don't think so. I've been trying to build him up all the time. One thing he's not is an overconfident individual or player. I think I have more confidence in his ability than he does.

In this league, it's all scoring at the right time. It changes the whole look of the game, if you get a goal at the right time. We've been getting those goals at the proper time and giving us momentum.

Vancouver is a good hockey team. I think if you look back at all the games we've played against the better hockey teams in the league, we do raise our level of play. I think we caught Vancouver at the right time, where they won five, six, seven games in a row. They came in and we put up a real good effort. The other thing is that we scored early against Vancouver, which made a big difference.

I've been wrestling with this. I can't say it will stay pat or not. We wanted to see how it would go in practice. Usually with forwards they interchange all the time anyway.

We played hard tonight, I thought we had a good effort. We had penalty trouble once again, some deserved and some not. You get into two 5-on-3 (power plays) for that amount of time, that's tough -- they're bound to get a score. It was almost 19 minutes of power-play time for them.

He will have the opportunity to get good ice time. His role might be more than with some other teams. And put in that situation, I think he'll play well. I expect a real good year number-wise.

We're having a tough time. We're creating some second chances in front of the net, we just can't seem to bury them.

We couldn't get a break on a goal at the right time, and if we do get a goal at the right time, it changes the look of it. They're on a mission to get into the playoffs and they came out hard at us.

Sometimes you don't realize how bad it is when your skate's still on. He's got a cracked bone in his foot, and he'll be on crutches for a period of time.

I think fatigue set in. You understand it when you're an athlete. Everything starts to shut down. You make poor decisions with the puck. We made plays out there that we haven't made in a long time. A lot of that is through fatigue.

Once he has the surgery he'll be done for the season. I don't know the medical terms for it, but going in they have to repair the labrum and that takes time. There's a long rehab with it.