Pat Quinn Quotes on Time (16 Quotes)

A lot of guys that had muscle pulls were guys that didn't play for a long time,

It was talked about, it was planned and now was the time to go.

I guess hazing has been around since Plato's time, but it does not make it right. It is distasteful to me.

The eyeball itself is fine. There's damage to the surrounding areas, but they weren't able to report if there is serious damage. I don't know what the time frame is for him to play again. I would bet there is significant swelling.

It takes time. Hopefully it doesn't take too much time because you will be out of here.

Time is our enemy here. This small amount of time that we have here this week is the start of putting this team together. These guys have to find a way to come together and it starts here.

For the time being, that would probably be what we're looking at for Saturday and we'll see where that takes us.

Those tasks are never easy, especially for guys who have had a long history of great service. And those decisions are not necessarily the right ones all the time.

He is a guy you can't discount here, ... Right off the bat, we know that he is a highlight reel sometimes. He is a very deceptive skater and is deceptive on the attack. Maybe we end up carrying him if we have three lines that are going to be logging lots of time. Maybe we have a specialty sort of a situation where we consider keeping him for the power play and shootout opportunities.

We'll evaluate that workout and we'll make a judgement from there whether he's coming or he needs more time. Talking to Ed, comparing it to the last time, he wanted to nip it in the bud and that's why he sought the treatment as quickly as he did. He feels that he's going to be fine, but he's also not the doctor either, but I guess he knows himself pretty well and he feels he'll have the one workout and then come and join us. That will still be a medical and personal decision.

He's one of the great goaltenders in the worlds, and he's been a big part of the Czech team for a long time. I don't know how it changes it necessarily, but when it comes time to play for the Czechs, we'll prepare knowing someone else is going to be in net.

He had lots of power-play time and it wasn't going for him. Maybe he was pressing, maybe the time away left some edge off his game and he might be ready to try again.

One of the things Team Canada management wanted to do, because we have so many talented Canadian players, was that availability of selecting the guy who's hot at the time.

Hopefully he won't miss any time.

He used to kid us all the time because a lot of times we would go with the standard guys.

We still got to keep plugging away until we're mathematically eliminated. We know we need them to fall down a little bit, clearly, because we'll run out of time here.