Sidney Crosby Good Quotations

I don't think we're overjoyed. Wins are expected, and that's the way it needs to be. I don't think we're up on Cloud Nine. It's a great win and we will not take anything away from it, but we have a lot of games left and we have to take the good things from this game and carry them on.

I felt pretty good (Monday) but it's not a game; there's a lot less movement.

But there's not much we can say when you score a highlight-reel goal like that. It was nice, and it was a good second effort. Some guys would have just thrown in the towel and let their body slide into the boards, but he stayed with it and got his stick on it.

He's a good goalie and made a great save.

This wasn't our best at all. But, trust me, we've played a lot of good hockey games and not won.

Just being around him is going to help me ? the little questions about things in town, where things are, just seeing about how he goes about things every day, ... On the ice, it's good for me to see some of these older guys who've been in the league for a lot of years and see how they practice, just get into good habits. Being around those guys, it's going to rub off.

That was a nice goal. I don't know why he fell over. But he did a good job of putting it in.

We did some good things that it takes to win.

We didn't play very well. It was good to get one point out of that one but I don't think we deserved that one.

We played well. If we are all skating and working hard we will get opportunities. There were a lot of new faces and new combinations but the guys had a good attitude about it.

We are playing with pride. We have a lot of young guys in here trying to make an impression. We had some momentum going there. I thought we carried the whole third period. It was good to get the momentum, but tough to get it taken away like that.

It would have been nice to get an empty net goal. We had a little scare when they came back in the second. But it was a good test for us, a test of character. It showed the confidence we have in each other now to come back.

We wanted to get a good start, but I don't think we've had the best first period the last couple of games. I'm sure it's something we thought about a little bit more, knowing the intensity they were going to play with being an important game for them. We knew they were going to play hard. I think we just tried to match that.

You never expect a situation like that so when it comes, you just have to have confidence in each other, and I think that's what was going through our minds. I think we were confident, and we knew we did a good job the last couple games. It was just a matter of doing it for a little bit longer.

I'm looking at it as short-term as possible. I want to have a good camp and push myself to raise my game as best I can. Obviously, this is a new level, but the pressure has always been there. I've always put a lot of pressure on myself to perform.

I want to have a good season, but I don't think I'll look back on whether it's one point a game or whatever.

It's probably mixed feelings (going into the break) because we have a little momentum and it would have been nice to try to carry it on. But I think we're all happy to finish it off like this. We can all go into the break feeling good about ourselves and know if we keep playing like this we have a lot to look forward to the rest of the season.

I really didn't expect anything from this season, I came in open-minded and went with the flow. A lot of things happened during the season, good and bad.

Honestly, it wasn't on my mind. We're trying to improve and you're seeing a focus in everyone right now, we have good energy and we're all battling.

I don't know if the effort was there. NHL teams, they've got to find a way to be prepared for an opponent. They've got a good team and a good system over there, but that doesn't make it any better.

It was just the matter of taking advantage of our chances and making things happen. When we move the puck good things happen. It's not like we haven't been doing that in the past. It's just that they haven't been going in. It was nice to see them go in tonight.

It was nice. It was sold out, good atmosphere. It would have been nice for a better finish.

It's always tough to lose when you're that close. We played two pretty good hockey games. But hanging our heads and getting frustrated over it is not going to help us in the next game or the long run.

You can't afford to go out there and watch too much, ... If you get caught watching, you're not going to get to the puck and not going to make good plays.

It was good just to see him out there with us. Hopefully he will see how his body feels and get back out there.

It was a tough break for us, but I don't know if we deserved to win that one anyway. Jocelyn kept us in it. It's good to get one point out of it but at the same time I don't think we deserved to win.