Olaf Kolzig Quotes (18 Quotes)

That's what they pay the goalie for. They're obviously an explosive team, and the more people you take off the ice (during overtime), it gives them room to generate stuff. Fortunately we shut them down and got a couple goals in the shootout and go home with a win.

Probably around Christmas time I had my mind made up that I definitely wanted to stay. So from there it took about six weeks to get it done. I'm glad we got it done before I went to Italy because when we get back there's only two weeks before the trade deadline. I'm relieved it's over.

I'm as bad as anybody for getting upset when things aren't going good. I've learned over the years that you can't beat yourself up. Or it can turn into a really long year. This season, there are going to be some growing pains with the team. You have to be patient, play your game and not try to do too much out there.

The games we are going to have to win are against Italy and Switzerland in order to get to the quarterfinals.

Easy night. We frustrated them all night long. It wasn't like we were just hanging on to win. I thought we dominated all night.

It will be my final Olympics and I am looking forward to it. We have a tough start with the Czech Republic and Canada, but anything is possible. You saw what Belarus did in 2002 (when it beat Sweden). Maybe we can do the same thing.

I thought I had it jammed between my body and the glove. I didn't see it and I thought I was going to hold it long enough for the whistle and then all of a sudden I saw it trickle in. The puck didn't go my way on that play.

I think they took the wind out of our sails when they scored that goal after we dominated the first period. It gave them a little bit of confidence and we got into penalty trouble. There's not much more that you can say about that.

I'm very excited. This is the only team I've known, and I'm very optimistic about where the organization is going and if we could ever win a Stanley Cup here during my time.

I'm not playing but I know Thomas is going to see a lot more shots. The Czechs like to pass the puck until they get a quality scoring chance while Canada is a traditional North American team that likes to get the puck on net and crash the net.

We knew they would come hard with a lot on the line. With us playing last night, we came out a little sluggish and took too many penalties. Obviously, they were buzzing but we survived it, and got better and better. In the third period, we had a heck of a period but I gift-wrapped their second goal, then we tied it up.

Only when they (Chris Drury) banked one off my head with five seconds left. It hit my defenseman and then the side of my mask. That would have made it interesting if that went in.

I made a joke before the game that Mathieu Biron turned our power play around a little bit yesterday and he's shooting the puck hard. He got a big goal for us tonight and he's doing some really good things out there for us.

Once you're at the Olympics, national pride takes over. It doesn't matter if you're making 11 million in the NHL or 30,000 in the Slovenian league. Everybody is equal they're all representing their country.

I feel like a kid again. I also think our wives are happy we're out of the house.

We just get ourselves in penalty trouble and it's kind of a snowball effect. It seemed like the first few kills we did a great job, then I think we got too tired and we allowed them too many easy chances. We have to eliminate the penalties sooner or later, or it's going to be a long season.

This organization was built on defense. We tried to change it last year, and we lost the defensive edge. Well, it's time to rebuild.

It was very disappointing. We had a chance to make it 2-0, but we couldn't capitalize. I was seeing everything great, and if you can see it, you can stop it.