Jarome Iginla Quotations

Obviously, we weren't happy with the way the game was going. Emotions get going when you look at the scoreboard and you're losing in the Stanley Cup Finals. And that's what happens.

Learning to play in big games, Game 7 and Game 6, all of it is a whole different level. It's different hockey, it's great hockey. On the other side of it, we were that close (to winning the Cup), (so) we're hungry. To get that close and hear the other team celebrating, and know it could have been us, that does enter your mind.

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing.

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Kipper was good on that one. I was trying to go five hole and he closed it down pretty good.

I get excited about playing in Edmonton, it's such a great atmosphere, and the games are fun to play in. We know the importance of these games, and coming away with two points is big for us.

Goalies are good, Kipper was good on that play,

But we can improve. It was not a good road trip, but it's good to come home and start over with the home opener.

But we know it's going to be tough, nobody in our room is getting ahead of it.

To come back in the third period, earn a point and clinch a playoff spot . . . there's some positives from tonight but it never feels good losing. They were a very hungry, very determined team tonight but we knew they would be.

He's a big key to their club and he represents a lot of their speed. We try to make sure we all finish our checks on him . . . even the smaller hits, hopefully we wear him down a little. The more hits we can get on him the better.

He's a big part of Hockey Canada, he's probably the biggest part, and it's great that he's coming over to lead our team again.

He was great. He made some very big saves. I have seen him play before and he is a big player.

He had to do that, because it was going in. I was right behind the net watching it, and Chuck would have had that one.

He's a top D-man in the league. He obviously was a pretty big boost out there for them.

We've been trying to build for a long time, and I'm thankful now, ... I think we're turning a corner and I really want to be here, what a great atmosphere with the fans. It's always been great around the playoffs, but to face what we had in the last playoffs and the atmosphere, I don't know if there's a better atmosphere and definitely we wanted to be here with our family.

He ended up with a few big points. He really got us going, got the confidence up and then everybody fed off it.

Looking over my career, unfortunately, I haven't had the greatest first 10 games,

I will admit I was pretty excited about it,

I think confidence it a big part of everybody's game. I think the last six games or so, I've just been feeling better and as a group, we've been creating more scoring chances, and it's good for everybody's confidence.

People are more in a party mode, festive mode.

I thought it was going to be a penalty shot. I was upset with the whole play.

It is frustrating because every player wants to contribute to their team's success and be a part of winning ... Hopefully I'll break out here against Edmonton.

I think the confidence is coming back, for sure.

Our special teams are getting better and we still want to keep moving in both categories, ... We're moving the puck and doing the things we want to do.

I think definitely all the way around the league there's more parity. The movement throughout the league has been exciting to watch as a player and a fan.

It doesn't feel good at all. We know we have to get better in a lot of ways. You look around our locker room and we know we have the talent and ability to score goals, but right now we're being a little tentative. We've got to relax and let our talent take care of it.

It doesn't feel good losing two in shootouts. We just couldn't find that second goal in regulation tonight.

It feels really good in our locker-room. It's been a lot of tough games and we've played some really good teams,

It isn't one thing. Look at all aspects of our game. It all needs to improve.

It has a lot of implications in the division. We can be five up on Colorado with three games in hand or we can be three down, so it could be a big difference.

It is pre-season, but we're coming off a loss and we want to get into the winning habit at home.

It awakens something you never even knew you had when you're that close - so we'll have to work at finding that chemistry again,

I think it's great. You can just see he's competing. I thought he gave us a boost. We scored pretty shortly after that.

It didn't happen tonight and now we go to Game 7. It's been back and forth the whole series. We go home and we're willing to do whatever it takes.

I think we're going to get hot as a team, and personally, I think I'm going to get hot too.

We'll learn and adjust from that game. Teams are too good around the league. You can't start like that.

Winning at home and scoring, it always feels good,

That's unacceptable. We know that in our room,

We had confidence but the first game of the series is a huge win for us,

We do think we're going to be a really competitive club and we want to be one of the top clubs, but we know it's not going to be easy, ... We're not going to get ahead of ourselves.

We'll try to have the same mindset for Game 2 as we did Game 1. Now hopefully all the excuses are gone and we can keep going.

We had a little more jump, a little more desperation. I think we had more fun tonight, too. The Ducks were doing it, too, for two periods. It was back and forth.

We'll battle through this together and turn this around,

That's very amazing. He's already a star. He's going to be amazing.

We're around the same age. He's a good power forward. He's got good hands in front of the net. He scores his share of goals. He can get really hot too which is a good thing.

We're about wanting to be in your face. We want to be aggressive. That's how we play this game.

To be a low scoring team like we are and to get the number of wins we have, he's easily the biggest reason. The fans were letting him know tonight and us as players, we appreciate everything he's done this year, it's been amazing to watch.

We're a union of 700 players and there are going to be different opinions, ... But I personally appreciate the job Trevor, Ted and the executive committee have done. Ted is a big part of this deal. He's had a huge say in getting us back on the ice.

We're a union of 700 players and there are going to be different opinions. But I personally appreciate the job Trevor, Ted and the executive committee have done. Ted is a big part of this deal. He's had a huge say in getting us back on the ice.

We don't know the exact secret, it's about sticking with it and staying positive. It's not just being in front, we had legitimate chances in front of the net, we had two-on-ones.

We want to be a hard, physical team to play against and fighting does happen in that. Our fight, whoever it is on our team, it pumps us up.

We came out and had a good start, and were able to draw some penalties.

We weren't as ready as we should be. If we take 'em, we've got to kill penalties. They had pretty much the whole first period in power plays, and they earned that.

We think we're going to be a really competitive club. But we know it's not going to be easy.

We were a lot better offensively. It was great start. It was a big boost for us. It was nice to have a shot right back at the Avalanche after they beat us.

We're right near the bottom of the league in offense and as forwards, we take it personally. If you look around the room, every single one of us has more to give and wants to be better.

We got two power-play goals but it's not really about percentages. As a group it's about finding the big goal. We had chances, especially late, to get the equalizer, and we couldn't cash in.

We know we have to get better. We have the talent and the ability to get a goal. Now the main goal is to get better.

We knew they'd be fired up. We've all gone through something like this during our careers when there's a shakeup or a tough change and you band together and get fired up. They battled and competed and found a way to get that third goal that we didn't get.

We knew they'd raise their game. They're one of the top teams in the conference and we didn't match them after they started coming.

We knew they would raise their game and we didn't match it after they started coming at us. It's a matter that later we've got to be better. I don't know if it's bearing down more or we've got to be more disciplined, but we're going to need to change and we have to do it in a hurry.

Being the only black player on my team growing up, I dreamt just like everybody else to be in the NHL, ... When I would say it, some other kids -- not trying to be mean -- (said) 'There are not that many black players in the NHL. What are the chances?'

Everybody thinks about it a bit. You try not to. This year it seems a little bit quieter around our place, which is good with us.

We've been creating more chances as a group.

I sent (wife) Kara to try and find one but it wasn't in the stores. It will be cool to see.

The third period was probably the best we've played in a long time. It was a very big game for us as far as momentum. We all knew the importance of it. We've got four days to live with it now.

These last six games, I've been feeling better and things are starting to roll. As a group, we're creating more scoring chances and it's good for everybody's confidence.

We were terrible in front of (Boucher). It wasn't even close to the style of game we want to play all the way around. It was a terrible game. We were very sloppy. Our strength is in our own zone and every single one of us was bad in our own zone today.

What's important is to keep going but yeah, we're thinking we want to clinch. But then we want the division. Those are exciting things, for sure, and they're in our sight.

When you get that close and then you hear the other team, the other fans celebrating to 'Simply The Best' and 'We Are The Champions', that hurt. It hurt a lot. We didn't know who was holding the Cup, but each time someone else took it, you could hear the fans go nuts. We're just sitting there, soaking all of this in and imagining what it would feel like ... if it was us.

We've played a lot of games lately and it was good to get a win.

It was a negative year, no question about it.

You look at our game, you look at how many young guys are coming in: Crosby, Richards and Carter and Corey Perry to name a few - there's a lot of skilled players coming up,

We didn't like the way we woke up this morning and saw they had jumped ahead of us. That's what makes these back-to-backs so much fun is if you lose, you get a chance to get right back at it.

A couple years ago we were very excited just to clinch a playoff spot because we hadn't been there. But back then we also didn't go in thinking we just wanted to have fun; we wanted to win a series. This year we start just wanting to win one series.

Denis made a good save on that one in overtime. Obviously I probably should have chipped it up. It would have been nice to see that one go in.

Defensively, we've been doing really well, and offensively, we'd like to score more goals. I don't think that's a secret. Personally, I think the first half could have been better and I'm looking forward to the second half and contributing more on the offensive side of it.

I've never been part of such a quick goal from the start of the period. I've seen it a few times by other teams watching on TV and stuff. Seeing it go in was definitely a good feeling.

That one wasn't so funny because he got hurt.

As a series goes on, each game gets bigger. We have a chance now to put a dent in them, but we know that, coming off a loss, they're going to be more desperate.

They've always been one of the best teams at puck possession and when you're not moving your feet, it looks there like they're playing with us. That's not even close to our best.

They've always been pretty quick and we probably made them look quicker,

They're very disciplined. They don't give you a lot of chances.

There's some grunting. The challenge is how fast you go from that tuck to that full position.

There's no question, pretty much all areas of our game need to improve,

This is amazing to me. I don't get it. No one on my team phoned me to express any displeasure with Ted's hiring. I can tell you that.

I'm sure he didn't want that, either. He was in there battling. Personally, I had a bunch there in the first I'd love to have back.

I'm very, very excited. Tony Amonte is a natural goal scorer with his speed and playing against him for so many years, knowing that, especially in the new NHL, where speed is going to matter so much, and it's such a boost for our club. And Darren McCarty, three Stanley Cups, and he's so hard to play against. You play against him and he can skate, he's physical and he can score goals. And these guys I've heard nothing but good things from other players. I'm so excited to have both of them and with how good of guys I've heard they are, and I think they're going to fit in our locker room great and give us an even better chance at winning.

In our last couple of games, we've just been a bit sloppier than what our game is and we've given up way too many goals. We've got to get back to doing what we do and that's winning the defensive battles. In the last couple of games, we've been losing those and everybody in our room knows it. That's where well have to start in order to get better.

I'm excited to continue my career with the Flames and help this team finish what we started in the 2004 playoffs,

It was a different kind of game. Before we knew it we were up four, but it was a weird game ... they're a good team, they battled back and thankfully we found a way to win that one,

It's personal, ... I want to be in the best shape I can, so I can have the best season. We do view it as a competition. It's fun. Once it's over, it's a pretty good feeling to look back and know the summer paid off. And with us being professional athletes, fitness is one thing was can control.

The last couple of minutes they broke it open,

That's a nice change, ... You can pretty much the start the season in every city in the NHL and believe you have a shot at the playoffs and that certainly wasn't the case before.

In playoffs, I think home-ice advantage is not as big as it is in the regular season. I think everybody's prepared. There are no tired legs or anything like that.

In that area there's a lot to live up to -- what a machine Gelly was,

I really like the position of our team, ... We're a young team that has a young core that's still intact and now we're one of those teams that's going to benefit from having free agents become available. If a team like ours is missing one piece, now we're able to go out and find that piece that puts us over the top.

In the third, we were a lot more determined hockey club.

I'll have to work on some breakaway moves. I think there's going to be more two-on-ones and more breakaways. It should be fun to watch though.