Nick Vitucci Quotes (37 Quotes)

Sometimes when you're pressing, you squeeze the stick too hard and instead of a goal you have a handful of sawdust. A big team effort and victory erases all of that. It's nice to get off this little slide we were on. Our mindset will be so much different. They know how hard things have been and it's nice to see them leave the rink with a well-deserved smile.

They need to talk about how far this team can go if we can control our emotions and talk about what is on the line.

We've been playing great as a team. Everyone has contributed. If one line wasn't playing well another one would step up and be the hero.

That sounds great. I'm very happy. It's been a long time coming. It's well deserved.

I don't know if I can come up with enough intelligent words to describe Drew MacIntyre. The confidence he has instilled in the rest of the team is unbelievable. If there is a goalie outside the National Hockey League that is playing as well as him, I'd pay good money to see him.

I've never been around a team that everyone knows they're going to come back every time. They have that never-say-die attitude.

It went right through the net. The ref said that the net bulged but he wasn't sure whether it was a stick that caused it or not. Their goaltender told our players it went right through the net. That's par for the course the way our luck has been going.

He was solid. When you only have three shots against you in one period, it can be hard on you mentally. I thought he gave us a chance to win. He stopped everything he should have stopped and he made a handful of good saves to keep us in the game.

I just hope they beat each other up. I hope it goes three games and we have a weary hockey team to play.

We needed to close the door there. That goal Pittman's woke up the crowd. We seem to play well with our backs against the wall. We play well under pressure.

I was a goalie for a long time and I stood in there and took my lumps until I was asked to get out of the net.

What a great effort. It was a smart 60 minutes of hockey. I couldn't be more proud of this hockey club over the last two games.

We were looking at this weekend as keeping pace, more so than making hay. We have to take care of our own business. We hold our fate in our hands.

That's hockey players - he played through it and didn't have a second thought about it.

Consistency has been a problem for us, especially on the road. But we played 50 minutes of good hockey tonight and that's not always enough, but it was tonight.

Part of that stretch where we were a mediocre hockey team was because we were getting mediocre goaltending. They weren't getting the big saves when we needed them. Sometimes you need those heroic saves to steal a game. Bernd and Drew are now giving us that consistently.

Some people think these guys are just hockey players, rough and tough guys. But they also have lives and aspirations away from hockey. He is a perfect example of that. One day he's sitting in front of an impressive group of people and two days later he is fighting in front of another group of people.

Huge. This is a relief. This is excitement. It's just a culmination of 72 games that this team has just grown and matured so much. What a nice reward we got tonight.

We just need to keep playing the way we've been playing. We are solid up front and along the back and in goal. We just have to keep our confidence going and not make mistakes.

When times are tough and points are hard to come by, we need individuals to step up to be heroes. Tonight we had a lot of guys who were heroes.

We relied on one man MacIntyre to hold us in a hockey game on Friday in the first period and we relied on him again tonight. We were 1-1 after one, but it could have been 4 or 5-1. It is frustrating because we are better than that.

It was excitement, but there was relief, too. We battled and fought so hard. After the season we will reflect on the title. But the most important thing right now is that we have five days off before we play again. So we can rest our weary bones.

Right up until Drew got here, we were finding ways to lose. We didn't have that block of confidence behind us in goal.. When we got Drew, our confidence grew.

We've certainly worked hard to put ourselves in that position. The next three games will dictate whether we have home-ice advantage or win a division title. It's nice to be in that position.

That's playoff hockey on Feb. 1. It was a fitting end to a great hockey game. Both goaltenders were phenomenal and there was just really nice hockey being played out there.

I've got nothing. I'm out of words right now. In 75 games we did not do this. They just have a couple guys that get under our skin and we were running around taking penalties. It's frustrating.

Right now it's better than ever. It's nice to know that whatever line we put out there, they're capable of putting it in the net.

We have an opportunity to redeem ourselves. Hopefully we'll put a stop to this.

I'm really happy with our consistency. We're playing sound hockey. It's a confidence thing. We have our swagger back.

He means an awful lot to the Detroit Red Wings. I might dig out some old cards and get him to put his John Hancock on a few.

That says a lot about our style and our ability to put that many shots on goal.

It's the exact opposite of our losing streak when we couldn't buy one.

We tried to let things go as long as we could, but it got to the point where the safety of the players became a concern. You've got to think of the players' best interests and not put them in harm's way.

Mac has been awesome for us. He gave the whole team a shot in the arm. He instills a lot of confidence in our team. He was dedicated to come back here and it shows how much he cares about organization. None of the players want to disappoint him.

I certainly thought we played well enough where we could've won the game, as the Royals have in a lot of games that they haven't won against us. That's what's fun about this series. But we made a couple key mistakes in the first period that resulted in pucks in our net, and you can't do that against that hockey team.

It was real big and hard earned. That was a tough couple of games that we had to play here. I am happy with my team. We kept working hard. It was a good two points for us tonight.

Maybe this is good. It knocked us down a bit. Maybe we're back to reality a bit.