Shane Doan Quotes (30 Quotes)

To get momentum like that is huge. We've got to find a way to keep it going. We've let it slip away too many times.

It was huge, obviously. There's a lot of emotion in a home opener, and you want to come out controlled, work hard and stay disciplined enough, and we stayed with it.

He plays so physical, ... It's unbelievable how well he times his hits. You always want to get him and it's so hard to get him.

It's disappointing. You have a chance at home to make a stand and we haven't done that. We have had six games at home and have not taken care of business. When you do that, it's really frustrating.

I had to apologize to a lot of people. I had to tell them I don't know what happened and that I'm sorry.

You never want to say, 'This one's for him,' because nothing compares to that, but it's a good way to go home. We're finding ways to win games again.

Those are huge moments that I'll always remember. And I'll never forget the last game we played there before moving to Phoenix. It was the loudest building I've ever been in for a sporting event ever. I couldn't hear what my teammates were saying.

When you get a chance to play with him you know it's going to be creative, it's going to be fun. Nothing is better than that when you play hockey.

He's 19 points ahead of the next closest guy on our team. He's able to create things from nothing on offense.

In America, nobody has any idea what Wayne is. If you took Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Derek Jeter, Brett Favre and kind of put them all into one, that type of following would almost be the same as what Wayne has in Canada.

It's unbelievable. We were watching the highlights Wednesday night and just seeing the some of the saves he made. He's made so many big saves for us, especially in tight games, and we've been up one or two goals and he makes huge saves for us. It's pretty remarkable. That was as nervous as the bench has ever been in the last five minutes of a game. Nobody wants to be the guy that kind of lets him down.

We can't stress enough the specialty teams and how important they are. If you want to win in the league now you have to have a good power play and then that's going to make it a lot easier.

When we play as a team with five men, we're solid. It's when we get trying to do individual stuff that we really struggle.

It's pretty nice. It's kind of the old style. Hockey has a lot of tradition so I think it's good to have kind of the old-school look.

It's encouraging that we're going in the right direction, but the goal is to make the playoffs. We're getting close.

That's fine. We're fortunate we can all play with everybody and expect success. I haven't exactly been tearing it up, so however I can help is going to be what I do.

He has so much on his plate, we don't worry about his schedule.

He's an emotional guy. You can get under his skin and think maybe you can throw off his game. I think it works the opposite. I think it fires him up more, and he's got that fire that's pretty intense.

I was so excited and so honored to be named part of the team, and for that to happen, it blows my mind. I've done absolutely nothing (wrong), and I've had to defend myself through all of Canada.

It was nice to contribute in that game and being to play in that whole World Cup is something I'll never, ever forget. But they're going to pick the best team they think has the best chance to win and they've had a pretty good success of doing that at this point.

It's a big thing we've been preaching -- pucks and people to the net -- and we finally got one to go in,

Tonight I think we picked up our desperation and urgency. We need to do that, or else we were going to be in trouble.

I haven't really thought that much about it. It's nice down here (in Phoenix). You don't hear that much about it hockey-wise.

That was huge. Johnny's one of those guys that you really cheer for because he does so much for us every night.

He's a fiery guy. The way he played is the way he coached, and you love that as a player to know that your coach is on your side and is into the game as much as you are.

Training camps open around the NHL next week, with Wayne Gretzky beginning his coaching duties with the Coyotes in Glendale, Ariz. I just can't wait, ... You feel like a little kid again because you haven't played in so long. Everyone's excited about that. But then you add the fact that every day Wayne Gretzky is going to be our coach - that's pretty special.

That's no fun to miss the playoffs, ... The World Championships was great, but you want to play in the playoffs. That's why you play the 82 games, so to go home early is no fun. Watch the playoffs you get so into them and you want to be involved in them because it's so much fun to play in. To not be able to play in the postseason is really tough to take.

You grow up playing five games in three days in tournaments. It's like going back to peewee hockey again.

Obviously you want to be on the team but there's at least 100 Canadian players that could easily be on that team. The group making the selections will have a tough decision on a lot of guys.

We don't have any room to lose. Every loss for us is huge.