Chris Chelios Guys Quotations

I don't think any team could have had a worse scenario than us, missing five guys and the week road trip on the West Coast. It's not an advantage, but that's the way it is.

Physically, I'm fine. We're looking for offense, we're down a goal, so we got the guys there to try and generate some offense. Obviously, we're disappointed with the outcome again like the first game, but we can't be frustrated. I thought we played well enough to win it, it's just they played well, too.

I think the guys are pretty satisfied with our effort throughout the first five games. Now we've got a good game against Finland, which is a very hot team.

I think it's really important for the guys to realize how important it is to get out to a great start. We've got to come out of the gate ready.

There are lots of guys that work just as hard in the gym as far as weight training and circuit training. I had to find something different.

You get your third- and fourth-line guys contributing offensively and it's a big bonus for you.

We've got a lot of guys at camp, so it's an opportunity for maybe one of them,

We've got a lot of guys at camp, so it's an opportunity for maybe one of them. But, they had high expectations of (Nik). You could see the way he was playing so far, what he did last year. They were depending on him a lot this year. Hopefully he'll heal quick and be here for the middle of the season and the remainder of the season and the playoffs.

That's half the battle, motivating the guys and holding everybody accountable. He'd be like a Mike Ditka coach, I think.

The biggest thing we stressed with (coach) Herb Brooks was that we needed to get off to a good start and to play with intensity right from the beginning of the tournament. That's the way we have to treat the Olympics. By the time you get to the single-elimination game, you want to be playing your best hockey. We are going to have to make the young guys understand that ... getting our intensity level high right from the beginning.