Paul Maurice Quotes (20 Quotes)

When he was at the prospects camp in July, I didn't know he was the guy from Making The Cut ,

I think (playing the previous night) was an advantage to them.

It's hard to do down here, where you often play three games in three nights. And they don't have the Centre Ice package in Binghamton.

I don't care what league you're in when you play six (games) in eight (nights) you're going to be back on your heels. With the injuries we have, you're going to be in tough.

We want to get back that good feeling that we had two years ago. It was a long summer to realize that we failed so miserably. It's nice to get back to work and give yourself and chance at redemption. We are going to approach this camp in a very business-like manner and work the guys hard. We won't be resting a lot of guys. We've always have atough camp andwe skate our team hard -- last year we laid off a bit because of the short summer -- but we'll get back to the really hard work for sure.

We scored two power play goals, which is something we hadn't been able to do in a game in a while.

I thought when we played when we could, we played a real smart game. We've got some guys who were a little bit behind and drew hooking penalties and I don't think the way the game was called helped us.

I was disappointed with our inability to be stronger in the defensive zone (in the third period). I understand why, but we were pretty darn good through two periods.

He has a sensitivity about him so that he can read people and have empathy for their situation. At the same time, he has a backbone to him that he's not over there holding anyone's hand.

And then I thought there's a lot of pressure on him. And he'd just like to blend into all of this.

If there was an issue that needed to be dealt with, he didn't need to go embarrass the player, or worse -- and you see that a lot, talking to everybody around them except the player. He'd go to the guy,

They're all really big pieces of our lineup. We have been really good without them and I would've liked to have seen them make the (NHL) playoffs ... but we'll take them back with open arms.

His attitude has been outstanding. I've never sat and wondered about where his focus was.

I said it before the game - I thought playing after the Christmas break, the team that plays (its) second game is going to have the advantage. We couldn't finish in the skill areas because a lot of skill is out of our lineup right now.

Grand Rapids will say all the right things, but I think they'll look at the standings and see they finished 25 points ahead of us and think in the back of their minds, 'Hey, let's win four straight and move on. We want to go in and maybe take it to seven games and see what happens then.

To be honest with you, a lot of the shows before the game you wouldn't mind missing but this one we absolutely enjoyed being a part of. I don't know how you couldn't be (inspired). She was gracious to stick around and shake each one of our sweaty palms. She's somebody you just watched at the Olympics become a national treasure. It was great we got to be part of this.

Jim Rutherford was the GM at the time. I was an asset. They could have added a player to make them better. Instead, they said we can trade you if you want but would you consider coaching

Our penalty kill wasn't very good, obviously. We can't be in the (penalty) box with the injuries we have on our blue-line.

His rebound control was outstanding and that's when he's on his game.

Eleven goals, the home team wins, the fans leave happy ... and the two coaches are behind the benches pulling their hair out. But I'd rather see that than a grind-it-out 2-1 game.