Mats Sundin Game Quotations

Some nights the game is easy and many nights you wonder what's going on.

We just have to get away from that - doing the mistakes that we're doing. We've got to simplify our game and get back on track.

I was a little worried before the game about how it was going to go, but it went better than I thought,

I thought he had a good game. I don't think he beat us all by himself. He made some stops but, overall, I think we lost this game more than they won it.

I thought we played a pretty good hockey game tonight. I thought we were the better team. We were outplaying them halfway through the game, and you look up at the scoreboard and it's 3-0 (for New York).

We're still alive. We have another game (Sunday) night and we'll have to bounce back. There's not much left to talk about when it comes to what we've got to do and what we're looking for and how we're going to do it.

Today we played our best game so far, and if we can play like this, we'll have a good chance on Sunday.

It would be nice for the last game of the season at least to have our full lineup.

We've got a lot of teams around us in the standings and behind us, so every game is big. There is no doubt in the locker room that we can make the playoffs.

To win a game with that parade to the penalty box requires a good effort and a little luck. If you score six goals in this league, you're going to win nine out of 10 times.

You're probably going to have one bad game like that in any tournament, and hopefully we got it out of the way.

I'm not surprised. I watched him play in the world championships last year, and all I hear from Detroit is how great he's been playing there. He's an excellent defenseman and what a game he had tonight, coming in first game like that.

I'm very impressed with the play of the younger players. Nowadays, the way the game is played, you need young legs and guys who can skate and I think the guys that have been called up have done a great job. The future looks good, I think, for this team.

I haven't played a league game in a long, long time but it felt better than I thought it would, ... You just want to win the hockey game when you're coming back.

A huge win for us, obviously. Last goal, it was great to see it go in. We didn't have our best game and things did not really go our way, but we found a way to battle. If we go into Boston and win, anything can happen.

It's tough, things aren't going our way. In important parts of the game we're giving up goals. We're not getting them where we should be. You can tell the whole group is tentative. We're making small mistakes out there. When things aren't going your way, every time we make a mistake we're paying the price.

It was good for us to skate and be on the big ice surface. Some of our guys just got their equipment before the game started and sticks and all that, (so) it's a learning experience.

We were ready to play, there's no doubt about that. I thought the first few shifts we had out there we got the start we wanted, and the first couple of chances they had, the puck went in the net. Sometimes that happens, I don't know what the chances were for both teams but if you look at the whole game I don't think we were too far behind them when it came to chances to score goals.

It was a tough way to start a game. We put ourselves in a hole and it was tough to get out.

We gave ourselves a chance to tie the game up right until the last couple of minutes. Sometimes you come up on the short side of things.

He's one of the best players to ever play the game and arguably the best leader ever in the game.