Sheldon Souray Quotes (24 Quotes)

There's no room to get down and it's no time to be worried about this game. We're going to learn a few things from this game. We've just come off a really good streak, we lost to a good team tonight, and now we've got to regroup and get the momentum back.

My golf swing curves like that also.

To be honest, I think we've been playing playoff hockey for the last 10 or 12 games. Our intensity, our focus has been there for the last three weeks to a month.

Cristobal shut the door after that. It was a bit of a lucky goal, but we didn't give up and we kept going at them with everything we had. We played a pretty solid game.

It was just a few words of encouragement. Obviously, with a player as important as him, and as well liked and respected in this room as him, just to know that he's feeling a little bit more upbeat gives a lift to the team. It was just nice that his spirits were a little higher than they were yesterday.

We have given up some leads in the last minutes of games. You just can never quit.

Assistant coach Guy Carbonneau has really come in and changed the philosophy of our penalty killing. Obviously the biggest thing is that when they're team is getting shots, Huet is stopping them.

There's nothing we can do about it. It's a loss for sure and it's an important piece of the puzzle but it shouldn't be a distraction. He's getting the best care that he can right now and we have our fingers crossed that he's going to be all right.

It would be easy to blame the officiating, but you can't.

I'm sure there are guys who take Sudafed, but it's probably no different than having three or four cups of coffee. If guys are on drugs because they're taking a pot of coffee a day, then there's going to be a lot of us.

I don't think worried is the right word, we still control things. We'll worry when the buzzer sounds and we're not in the playoffs.

I think believing is the first thing because momentum is a funny thing some times. You get momentum and luck and things start happening and you just get that feeling.

I was skating back and yelling at him to freeze the puck. I was assuming that he was going to but he had a different idea. That's why communication is important.

It's a huge advantage for us. He's one of the best power forwards in the league and that's a devastating loss for them.

It's certainly not his fault. He's been so unbelievable for us that he's last guy you'll ever blame for anything. ... He has really taken the team, the city, the fans, everything on his shoulders and has carried us right to where we are now.

We are walking a fine line right now. The penalties are killing us and we need to play more desperate and get more urgency in our game.

We're still trying to win games. We're not trying to rely on other teams to get us in. I mean obviously any way we get in we're going to be happy with but we had it right there to do the job for ourselves and we let it slip away.

The 5-on-3 at the end of the first, they played it very well. They had the penalty killers working really hard. They didn't give us much. Credit to them, but there was a lot of hockey after that. When you spot that team three goals you're fighting an uphill battle.

That was a crazy play, (Huet) was unbelievable making some huge saves at the end. He saved the game for us. He's been really good, but tonight he was unbelievable.

Now we have a big mountain to climb, and the road is going to be tough.

We're in the playoffs, everything's at zero. We're looking forward to going down to Carolina and playing a really good team.

I don't know if we thought things were going to be easy the rest of the way, that teams were going to lay down for us. The guys that were lineup haven't held up their end of the deal. To a man, we can all play better.

Because we were down we're going to take some chances and push the play a bit. We battled back hard. We were in the game, we fought hard but fell a little bit short.

There has been questionable calls all year long. It's black, white and gray this year, the officiating. You can't blame them, but is it frustrating Yeah, it is frustrating.