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We played 13 minutes good hockey (in the first). They got two early and one late and between that we played pretty good hockey.

We played against very good teams, playoff teams for sure, maybe candidates to win the Stanley Cup. They're already playing playoff hockey and I don't think we're playing it yet. The two games teach us we are not there yet. We have to play smarter.

We played a heck of a hockey game. It could have gone either way. I thought we got better and better as the game went on. We did a lot of gritty, good things in the third period. We deserved at least a point, and maybe two.

We played a heck of a hockey game. We played about as well as we've played on the road all year. We fought, we clawed.

We played with a lot of courage tonight and played together. It was a great hockey game, up and down. We didn't back off and we matched their speed.

We played well, but it's a learning experience to see what Division I hockey is like. We now know what it is like at the next level.

Wheeling is a good hockey team but they seem to rub it in. I don't think our guys appreciate it.

We are not going to build a whole strategy around him. Hey, we all know he is a very good hockey player. We think we have 22 very good hockey players.

We are absolutely delighted that Hockey Day in Canada is coming to Stephenville,

We're not reinventing the wheel of hockey here. It's just simple things, and we did that here tonight. We do that, we can come at you with three lines and keep going and going.

We didn't have a very good first period to say the least. Then Johnson's goal was a big goal. That was a big sort of turning point for us in the hockey game to be able to come in after the first period only down 2-1.

We didn't show up to play for a period and a half and it cost us the hockey game. We played a great third period, but it's just one period -- we can't do it for 60 minutes. That's been our problem all season long.

We want to improve our hockey club if we can. We have lines in the water, but there is nothing happening right now, nothing is imminent. A few of the teams that I have spoke with have mentioned that they have four or five games left before Thursday and there is still a sentiment among many teams on whether they are buyers or sellers. So from that standpoint it's a little more complicated because that hasn't really crystallized yet.

We were all over them from the start, and Marquette was a tired hockey team at the end. I sold the kids on this all week. I convinced them they could win this game, and they finally believed it. We've worked hard this year and have taken some lumps. But this is the reward for all of that work.

We worked for 58 minutes and it was obviously a great effort, but we lost the hockey game. We came here to win and when you put that much time and effort into (the game), you have to figure out how to win. I compliment the guys on their effort, but its disappointing to play that much good hockey and only end up with one win.

We started very poorly and they came out flying in this building, as they usually do. We had enough chances, but we're not scoring on chances the way we were. We tried to do things you can't do against this hockey club.

West Fargo has a good hockey team. They played us tough twice and both games could have gone either way.

West Fargo is a good hockey club. I have a lot of respect for them, and I feel for their seniors.

We're excited to have Cara with our field hockey program. Cara comes from a great background at Walpole. She's an excellent educator. We're excited for the kids to get a chance to work with her.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

We want the two points (tonight). As a coach, you want to realize you're playing your best hockey this time of the year and I thought we played fantastic hockey against BU in a playoff-type setting.

We want to be in the playoffs and we've got to win these games. It's playoff hockey and it feels like playoff hockey.

When we work hard and keep it simple, we're a good hockey team. When we try to get out of our game, we can get in a lot of trouble. But we're realizing we are going to work hard and if we do go down, it's going to be with a fight.

We'll have one two weeks in August. We hope to book a youth hockey tournament here.

My focus was always first and foremost to stop the puck. I never let the other players on the other team get to me.

As opposed to living the rich life and consuming as much as possible, people have to take a step back. Instead of buying the biggest diamond or having 18 cars, do other things. Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it.

I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.

I don't care what people say about me and what they think about me. I care about my team and I care about myself. Lots of people watch hockey, and I think everybody has different thinking.

Right now I'm scoring goals and I'm the king of the world. And a couple weeks ago I was almost in the toilet. So maybe you just forget to flush me.

Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.

Maybe's he's just jealous I have hair.

Hockey is my life and money is money. If you think about money, you stop playing hockey.

Fighting is necessary in hockey. But if you fight, you have to choose your partner carefully. If you're an experienced player and you want to fight, you can't choose a player who has never fought in his life.

I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.

Girls, where are you? I can't find you.

If I'm playing hockey, I want to win all the (trophies) I can.

The NHL's opinion of itself is so high.... Let them get drunk on their greatness. We'll see how many Euros look our way.

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.

You want it? Work for it.

The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

At the end of each year I make a list of my mistakes and it's pretty friggin long.

I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net.

First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.

I've got a hockey record, I took off my skate and tried to stab a guy, I'm the only person who ever tried that.

I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

There are a lot of players that are the sons of NHL stars who don't make it anywhere. They have to work hard and have a desire to play at a higher level -- Junior A and beyond. I'm not sure where this will lead him -- a Division I college. Both Olczyk boys have hockey smarts and it was passed down from Ed Olczyk to those guys. As a coach I cannot teach some guys even though they try and try. Some guys never get it.

We're trying to make a statement about local hockey and using the arena can do that. The last five games are pretty good rivalries.

We're trying to put all the pieces together to win a Stanley Cup. The thing that excites me is to get a guy who has accomplished what he's accomplished, I think his best hockey is ahead of him.

We're trying to stick together here and do the proper things and do the proper plays and work hard in practice and find ways to win hockey games, but it's awfully frustrating when you lose.

We believe that we still have a pretty good hockey team, but it just needs to right itself.

We're still way behind them (six points) in the standings, so I think we have to be aware of that, ... We knew it was going to be an important weekend for us, and they're a very good hockey team, so we have to make sure we're ready.

We let a good hockey player go to Atlanta, ... But I just felt it was time for change. We had two runs at the Stanley Cup, one was partially successful, last season we failed. There's a reason when you fail and those reasons have to be looked and tried to be rectified and this is what we're trying to do.

We let it slip and it's hard to get a handle on exactly how it did slip. We got the first goal, and then going into the third 2-2 it's anyone's game. But you can't gamble. You have to play percentage hockey and do things right. We got a little lazy and they got the momentum.

We knew tonight was going to be tough. We were a tired, tired hockey team that won two big emotional games, and hung on for dear life last night.

With a bounce here and there we could have gotten a tie or possibly a win. We obviously had our chances. I just think with as little hockey as we have played ... we were in shape, we just weren't in game shape.

Winning Olympic gold against the best players in the world is certainly my greatest moment in my hockey career. But hopefully I can get into the Stanley Cup Finals with Toronto, too.

We don't play good hockey until we get behind for whatever reason. If we'd played like that early in games, we wouldn't get into trouble.

We really do have to get our heads around the way the game is being called. We're growing up in a hurry here, and we cannot afford to play hockey like we did tonight or our growth will be stunted in a real hurry.

We have been shut out since last year, and haven't done much to change people's minds until now. It's OK, let them underestimate us. We want to keep improving and be playing our best hockey of the year when playoffs come, and let the chips fall where they may.

We don't want to get into a spot with Steve where we're going to cost him an opportunity someplace. But he is still determined that he is going to play on this hockey club. We're open to that too. It has a lot to do with the respect we have for him as a player and an individual.

We like his size and feel (he) has a tremendous upside as he has been one of the top young goaltenders in the American Hockey League the last two years and has shown steady improvement as well.

We were really trying to create more opportunities with our one front line, but Bob Kaplan just kept them in the game because he is just a really special hockey player.

We will find a way to get back to the winning ways. It starts obviously in Edmonton now with three huge games that are probably going to decide the fate of our hockey club.

When I scored that goal, it was the greatest feeling I've had in hockey so far. This game is the reason why I chose to come here.

There hasn't been one game where one team has taken it from the start and just rode with it. That's just playoff hockey between two evenly matched teams. We don't really expect too much different in Game 6.

We just have do what we have been doing all year: play our style of hockey which is good team defense turning into offense. As long as our forwards come back and help out then we are going to be alright. We just have to protect Bishop and let him see the puck.

We're trying to bring our hockey back to what you used to watch on TV as a young kid - moving the puck, making fancy plays.

We need to drop the puck tomorrow. I got nothing to do now. Hockey is everything. We need to get back out there.

Walk-up (ticket sales) for the first (Stockton Thunder) hockey game was huge. We averaged 8,300 fans for Saturday hockey games, so I suspect we'll do that for football.

We shocked the world. A bunch of hockey players beat the United States. Baseball Canada is in ecstasy.

We showed a lot of character coming back. We really competed hard and probably played the best 40 minutes of hockey this season.

We're just competing. All we're focusing on now is start playing better hockey defensively, neutral zone. We always talk about whatever the score is we have to play a full sixty minutes, that's what's happening.

We're just delighted. It was lots of fun for football and hockey fans alike, and it gets Green Bay's name out in the world of hockey.

Probably not. Their depth and our play right now...it doesn't look too good.

A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.

I know you define leads by goals having the lead, but we never really had the lead.

It's the nuts and bolts time of the year and we don't have enough nuts and bolts.

It seems like we're doing just enough to lose by a little.

They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.

The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!

Over the weekend, Vladimir Putin scored eight goals during a hockey game. It happened just after he had the goalie executed.

Every country gets fired up to play us. They played well. I thought when it was 2-1 that we had some chances to make it 3, 4-1. He made some saves and we just missed some shots. They got a break on their second, and the third period I thought we had a lot of chances, he made some big saves. We got it done in the shootout.

I just heard George W. Bush's new plan for airline security. From here on out, every plane will now have its own hockey dad.

It's going to be intense. This is what we played the whole tournament for, we had to play an extra game but I think that's a good thing, we got some line combinations working together fairly well now.

To me, that's a little bit of a slap in the face. I think we're a pretty good hockey team. ... The only thing we need to do is prove it on the ice.

When you're young and you buy entertainment-oriented businesses, you do it so you can package them in a way that enhances their value. I've always believed that to build the Internet you build a community of interests. Then you supply content to strengthen the sense of community - and a hockey team is content.

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

We were already playing good hockey before the Olympic break. We were playing with confidence, and it's that confidence that we brought with us on this trip.

We were banging around it so hard in the second that I felt, even though we were down 4-1, that if we made it 4-2 early (in the third), which we did, if we kept going we could still tie up the hockey game and maybe win it. We had a lot of good chances, but we didn't finish and then they scored the fifth goal.

We have to get a junior hockey franchise put together from top to bottom. We're looking forward to it, but that year and a bit is going to go by in a hurry.

We've tuned it down to a mild roar. We've got to let him play hockey a little bit. That's the best marketing of all.

We've got a pretty good hockey club right now.

Women's hockey allows body contact, not body checking. We want to play hard, have physical contact.

The Red Wings have always had the big-name players. But Nashville is a good, young hockey team that plays very aggressively. They just have to forget about all those big names and focus on what they want to accomplish. They have to compete with whoever's on the ice.

We were in a position to put them away and we didn't. Playoff hockey is coming up and if we can't keep a two-goal lead we're in trouble.

I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.

That was awesome. I wasn't expecting it and when I got the call I got nervous for a second. But I was just really excited.