Dave Tippett Chance Quotations

We're obviously glad that it's nothing too serious with Mike, but we'll just see how he is Saturday. That's a decision we'll make at game time. We do have some healthy bodies around, so we're not going to take a chance with anybody and put anybody in a vulnerable situation. But that being said, we want to continue to play well as a team -- and he's a big part of our team.

Marty will play tomorrow. We expect Marty to be a top goaltender every night. Whether he expects it or not, that's the role we put him in, and he has to take that responsibility and give us a chance to win every night.

I think he's really looking forward to the playoffs. It's a chance to kind of redeem some of the demons he's had in the regular season.

We didn't want to take a chance with it. It's just being smart and not doing anything crazy.

Fatigue was certainly a factor tonight, but we hung around and got ourselves a chance to win. Marty was great tonight.

It's way too early to be picking out line combinations. And there's still a good chance the two could play on the same line.

Are they bad mistakes by the goalie? No. But are they goals that we expect Marty to stop? Yes. And that's the difference. We can be an average or below-average goalie and just wallow along, or we can we be a really good one and give our team a chance to win, and that's the responsibility we need Marty to take. And he's done it in the past, so it's not as if we're asking for something that we don't know is there.