Tim Taylor Quotes (68 Quotes)

For some sort of reason, they scored their first goal and right after that they seemed to get a lot of momentum off of that and carry the play. Ever since then we were trying to play catch up and it's not a good situation when you are playing catch up in a game like that.

That's what we need. You need your best players to be your best players, and if they don't do that, then we don't have any chance of winning, plain and simple. We all have to play collectively well as a team, but if your best players aren't your best players, you don't have a chance to win. The life and the pulse of this hockey team is our young players.

We're going to forget about this one, but at the same time we're going to remember it.

It's getting to the point where every day you have to track where you've been. If we get there at 3 o'clock in the morning and play later that day, you're only there one day. But if you get in the night before you were there, two.

Things change in the playoffs. Pressure seems to mount on certain players. Some play good, some don't.

The Flyers are a team that we usually play hard against, ... You know that if you don't play well, you're going to get embarrassed by them. They usually bring out the best in us.

Highly competitive is an understatement. The companies are stumbling all over themselves. It's gotten to where students during their internships are making more than their parents.

Our end zone defense was immense. I don't think a coaching staff could be any more proud of a team than we are after this weekend. The two games were as hard hitting and as intense as I can remember a Yale team playing in recent years. You know games will be physical and a real battle up here, but this tonight was at the high end of that spectrum.

I tell high school seniors not to let salary be the only factor in deciding to study petroleum engineering. The worst thing you can do is go into a career you don't like even though the salary is good.

You get a power play and you think, 'We get one here, the door's shut. But the way things are going for us, we will take the two points.

We feel good about this win, but we didn't play particularly well.

If we play like we have played the past two games, it doesn't matter who we play. And if we play like we played the two games before that 6-3 loss at Florida, 6-2 loss to Atlanta then it doesn't matter who we play because we will be out.

Obviously, the big issue is we're not winning any gosh darn games. It's gnawing at us as a team and a coaching staff. I don't like to be a coach that talks about playing well if we're not winning, but we've got goaltending that put us in position to win both games. The plain clear thing is that we've lost the scoring touch.

Honestly I would prefer that not to happen. I would much rather have three or four guys averaging in double figures than to have one or two putting up big points. It just makes it that much harder for teams to defend you when you've get three or four guys that are capable of scoring points.

He Hunter was playing great ball earlier in the season. But it kind of seemed like he's been taking a back seat lately. He's just too good of a player for that to happen. In order for us be a championship quality team he's got to play at a high level because it's really hard to have to guard three guys like that.

Absolutely. This was about pride and it showed our players that if we work hard in all aspects of the game, good things happen and you have good outcomes.

Right now is no time to get down there is no time to point fingers, it's a time with three games left in the season to win two games. We are in control of our own destiny. It doesn't matter what Atlanta does, it doesn't matter where Toronto is, it's all about us. It's two out of three games. This is a time to stand up and take control of the situation.

In a private ceremony tucked away in the basement of their arena, Lightning players and staff received their Stanley Cup rings Tuesday, but it wasn't the day most of them thought it would be. The NHL had concerns about the Lightning hosting an event for the players seeing as how owners and players are in the middle of an ugly labor dispute that threatens the season. There was no pomp and circumstance and no Stanley Cup. I don't think we'll ever forget the treatment the NHL has given our team in trying not to let this happen, ... It was a joke. I think it's a slap in the face the NHL has given our fans because they should've been involved. This should have been at the Forum in front of 22,000 people as we walk up and get the rings and open it up and show the fans. I personally feel the NHL has taken some of that away from us.

It's very frustrating. We are in the games and we just don't seem to get the breaks. Yeah, it is frustrating. But that's the way it goes, you create your own breaks and breaks are not coming our way so it's going to last for a while. We have to make it change ourselves.

Families and individuals, on their own, have found their way to Geauga County, ... We had an idea that this could happen. We planned for it and had inquiries from numbers of people that we can certainly deal with.

It's nice to sign a score sheet with nothing but Yale goals. I'm really happy for Alec. This is definitely a feather in his cap, and a feather in the cap for the entire defense.

We had the game in our hands with seven seconds left. If we don't make mistakes, we win.

It would be useless to try to come up with an explanation or a solution to the past two games. We have to figure out what we are going to do for the next game and how we are going to come out and play. We can't look around and say whose fault it is on this goal or on that goal. It's time to just make sure we go out and take control of our own destiny, and that's by winning two games.

We have to continue to improve on our team chemistry. We also have to keep improving on our defense and keep playing as hard as we have so far this season.

When he gets going, hes extremely powerful. He loves physical contact. Hes strong on his feet, has a low center of gravity and accelerates into hits with his knees bent.

He's coming into this knowing he'll be a fresh voice and pair of eyes in evaluations. I think he's going to be able to start from scratch, in terms of evaluations of goaltenders. Hopefully he'll allow us to make the right choices and select a starter.

I watched him play for Russia in the World Junior Championships in 2005 finals against Canada, and I didn't think he would make that much of an impact when he got over here. And obviously he has done that.

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We're not feeling the best right now. The highs and lows in playoff hockey are unbelievable.

I felt that our team came out and played a real good playoff game. I think we put ourselves back on the map as a playoff team for two periods. We know how we can play. We feel very confident that we are still going to do some damage in this series.

We were not at our best today but we got the win. In a game like that, it's a pretty good sign.

I had no idea what to expect going into the game.

This was the start of our playoffs. We need to win hockey games. We need to put points on the board.

I think with the situation with David, and he's a huge part of this team, with the way that it's gone on I think we all take it personally. We all need to step up. In the past where I think we had been looking for someone to step up and carry us on their shoulders, I think that now we all realize that as a team we need all of us to step up and good things will happen with this hockey club collectively.

I saw some improvement tonight defensively. I don't think anybody really had an outstanding individual performance but I think as a team we got better tonight.

This budget process has been long and arduous over the past five months, and I would like to move forward and concentrate on looking ahead for the district.

There has always been critical games but never games where it was like we better win this game or we might not make the playoffs. That was new to us because we are expected to do something. Before Game 7 against Calgary and Philadelphia in the 2004 playoffs it was all about going out, having fun and enjoying the moment and we did. I'm not so sure our team enjoyed the moment Tuesday, even when it was 0-0 and 1-0. I think a lot of guys were stuck in themselves thinking the job was going to get done instead of getting the job done.

There's some questions surrounding both teams, no doubt. They'll be answered in the first round.

Tonight's game is huge, it's absolutely huge. It will dictate what happens to us for the final three games.

These road trips are not easy. They wear on you and go into the next week of practice. You don't want to blame things on outside factors, but the road might have something to do with it.

The most disappointing loss of the season. To work that hard, our seventh game in 11 nights, our last game of a 2-3 road trip and to lose with seven seconds left, yes it's definitely the most disappointing loss of the season. Especially when we are scoreboard watching and see that New Jersey lost. It's definitely the most disappointing loss of the season.

History matters. It weighs on you.

That was one for the ages right there. There was a winner, but there was really no losing team. It was a battle of guts, will and character for Union just as much as for us.

I think we have to clean up the little things ... the little things that made us a real good team. That's winning all the loose-puck battles. Killing that big penalty. Scoring the big goal on the power play. We've lost a little bit of that. We're playing well, but not well enough.

A lot of people don't want to pull that hose out and fill up their planes. It's kind of like the old full-service filling station.

We'll do it all for folks. If they know how long they'll stay, or even if they want to remain here permanently, we'll do what we can to ease the burden.

But I'm in my own bed at the end of every night. That wasn't always the case at Virginia. Life on the road doesn't allow it.

If I can sum it up in words, this is the most disappointing loss of the season.

This is a key time for us, these games before the break. We have a goal in mind to win every one. We're playing well. We just have to keep it going.

Dave is a very proud individual. He's a great character guy. It would be disrespectful to him if we let this be a distraction. He has instilled a good attitude within this hockey team - and that is to push forward. He would want us to get better and prepare for Friday's game.