Rob Schremp Quotations

I don't blame them. When it's in the States, I don't think very many Americans are cheering for Canadians. It's not strange. We don't care about who is behind us and who is not. We are here to win a tournament.

Here and there we have had lapses. We have a tie and two wins. We can't wait until we play a full 60 minutes.

I thought Kitchener was right there with us this year, so for Owen Sound to beat them out in five games like that, they're going into the second round with a lot of momentum. Teams like that are dangerous. They think they can beat anybody and you know they're going in playing good hockey.

We hate them every bit as much as they hate us.

What we need to do is hit Bobby Ryan a little more. He's a tough guy and he's trying to get through the neutral zone a little too easily. Maybe we need a good open-ice hit or a few more hits to slow him down. We do that, maybe we do a better job of shutting him down.

The deeper you get in the playoffs, the harder it is to score. It's all about hard work in the playoffs, then skill takes over. Hard work sounds like a cliche. But you have to turn it up a notch, then get creative. I like the pressure situations. And this series is a pressure series. We get through this one, we're going to be good.

We've become pretty good friends through playing with the Americans (at the world junior hockey championship). We'll chirp each other now and then and we'll give each other a slash when we have to, but it'll be good to go up against him. It's a good test for our team.

They've been getting the bounces. Part of playoff hockey, part of the series, there'll be times when you go through droughts. Myself, there's been times when I have an empty net and I've been hitting the goalie in the (butt) or missing the net. Those bounces are going to come to us sooner or later.

They (the fans) were pretty annoying. Only half of the area behind our bench is glass -- it's like Kitchener in the penalty box -- so you can hear everything they're saying and they were really giving it to me. All I can do is go out there and keep scoring goals.

I'm the go-to guy like Corey was last year. Actually, last year, we had seven guys who were go-to guys and it was amazing. But this year, we've come together as a team. We have our own identity and we know what it takes to win.

I hadn't even heard of the world junior tournament until I came to Canada. I was 16 before I saw a game and I had no idea it was played over Christmas.

That got us boiling. Maybe he should be in junior B, I don't know. But we came out the last three games and proved to him what we're all about.

I want to be more of a leader. I don't want to be the 13th forward who just gets time on the power play. I want to be a go-to guy.

Canada lost a lot of guys from the team that won the (2005) gold medal. But you can't put the best team in the tournament together every single year. You can only put together what you have.

Hey, it might have looked like we were tired because when you're at the end of a four-minute shift, you are tired. But you recover quickly on the bench. I feel rejuvenated today, ready to go.

A guy like Adam, you want to get him the shutout and you feel bad for him when they score late on him like that. He deserves it. He stops everything for us.

There was the pressure of winning our way in because nobody wanted to hear anybody say we were lucky. We set all those records and we felt we had to continue winning and get in the right way.

This was huge because Kitchener's right on our heels. We've got to keep winning, and we're doing a great job right now.

There's a lot of skill on this team, a lot of grit, a lot of everything. We've got big, fast, skilled forwards, so it's a pretty good team and well put together.

The difference between them and a team of hard-working players like Windsor is that Owen Sound has Bobby Ryan. He's a great player -- he's all finesse and he made a lot of great plays against Kitchener.