Lindy Ruff Quotes

"We've got a lot of decisions to make,"

"He's anxious to play. He's cleared for physical stuff in practice, which we're giving him a pretty good dose of today. . . . I wouldn't rule him out for later in the week."

"I'll take 100 points, but the guys got me a gift and my parents said, 'When you get a gift you should wear it."

"Our game was back where we needed it. We really skated well. They had trouble with our speed."

"The key to deserving the victory was the amount of battle we had in the penalty-kill situations."

"You believe you can make it every year. You don't think it's going to end. But the reality is that most teams, you end up in, you end up out."

"We took advantage of every break we got. We took advantage of our odd-numbered situations that we haven't previously taken advantage of in Game 3 and Game 4. The good chances they gave us, we made sure we finished. We made sure that we got them down when we had the opportunity."

"The first seven minutes was as poorly as I've seen us play in a while. Our execution, our passing . . . we weren't crisp. We weren't alert. We deserved what we got."

"We played them pretty even for most of the game. But our execution was not very good."

"I'm very appreciative from ownership all the way down — the faith they've shown, ... I really like what the team has done and I appreciate the message they've sent and what they've tried to do. ... But it's knowing that we have a job to do every day and this business is all about winning."

"We are definitely disappointed. Our execution wasn't very good."

"There's no quit in our team. Check our record, the number of games we've won when we've been down by a goal. You've got to give the guys credit. The number of guys we've had go out of the lineup at key times and the number of guys who have stepped up ... you've got to give every guy in that room credit for battling through adversity and doing it every night."

"We only had two odd-man rushes the whole night."

"With the new rules he's going to score. Still, I'll take some of the grind and some of the front-of-the-net play that we have in our guys, and I think it's just made us a deeper, stronger team in that sense."

"Our execution and passing wasn't very good. We had a couple of guys on a couple of shifts who couldn't handle the puck, and it disrupted the whole power play."

"They just never quit. They battle through adversity. The message is when you're dealt tough cards you give it your all and you go until the last whistle."

"It makes for an interesting three days. You can have a lot of emotion spill over. Really, it's going to feel like the start of a playoff series, and not that often do you get that situation in our league."

"They just never quit. They battle through adversity and don't quit. ... Again, we demonstrated a lot of resilience and made enough plays."

"He was solid. He saw everything and was totally under control. He gave us momentum."

"He wasn't out, but he wasn't there. I had a conversation with him and it was more like a conversation with myself."