Ken Hitchcock Quotes

"As the game wore on, we were out-competed,"

"Management misses an opportunity to build a team greatly."

"He was happier on that side and as a result, he was exceptional in practice (Wednesday). He likes the left a lot more because he thinks it helps his confidence and speed."

"It's the nature of our season. We're in first place in one category. We lead the league in the unfortunate category of injuries."

"I think we were overwhelmed the first 10 minutes. That's my responsibility. We were embarrassed, embarrassed by the way we performed and embarrassed by the way we finished the hockey game."

"We?re going to have to make some adjustments. We honestly don?t know how this is going to work for us until we play some exhibition games."

"This is a huge deal for the players. For once in their lives, they get to feel like an athlete, not an entertainment machine. They live with everyone else from different sports. They get to represent their countries, which is the biggest thing for these players. From the experiences of '98 and '02, this is a big thing."

"We feel confident in his ability. He has the speed to get up on the attack."

"They pushed the level out there. It's not about whether we can keep up. We don't have a choice."

"Their determination defensively was a little better than ours was offensively. Overall, they were all committed physically. We were one chance and out."

"If you can't get ready for the best team in the league, you're in trouble. They've taken on all comers this year and they've really eaten up some teams. I don't know whether it's the fear of getting embarrassed, but we've got a lot of competitive guys and we love to play in these type of games."

"There are too many games now where there's too much structure and not enough of the chaos."

"We look at that as a compliment, first of all,"

"You were taught at an early age that you don't just fall down as soon as someone puts a stick on you,"

"I guess I need to apologize. I know better than that. I kind of lost discipline the way our team did in the game."

"We knew they were going to play games for us, but to switch locker rooms before we even played a game, we never even thought about that stuff. We had our 23 guys and we thought that was it, then bang, bang things change dramatically."

"We're disappointed. We played a great game. We deserved a better fate. It's the best game we've played in a month."

"Their tenacity, speed and hunger controlled the game."

"It's still not good enough. We know the rules and we took two penalties in the third period that we can't take, not when the game is on the line. You're just dealing with an unbelievable level of fire when you're giving a team like that six, seven or eight penalties."

"We've had to overcome adversity the whole season."