Ron Wilson Quotes

"They scored first but I didn't see the team flinch. We were ready to play from the beginning of the game."

"That was huge, to respond to some adversity. We're going to face this kind of stuff when we're on the road, and it's great for our confidence, to be able to win that kind of game."

"The test was, could we handle the adversity in the second period and we did."

"Basically you can't fear failure. We've got to go out there and be ready and play on the edge. We're going to need everybody ready to compete."

"Patty played a great game. He was taking the puck to the net, and he was a force. I think he got excited when he saw he was going to be on the point on the power play."

"He's going to be a 35-40 goals scorer."

"We've been like umpteen points behind (in the standings) and caught people so two goals down in the first 10 minutes is not that big a hill to climb for us."

"We can't sit back and expect Joe to score three or four goals and we jump on his back. He has to do his job and we have to do our job."

"Each one of them wants to score so bad, they go to the net hard and they live to see the red light go on. That's what's common amongst them all."

"I don't think he realizes what he just did, how hard that is."

"I didn't like the way we were giving up goals in the third period. We need to show more poise, but our offense was there as it has been for the last three games."

"They're simple mistakes to correct, however inexcusable to make because they're simple positioning failures. And a couple times you lose, whether it's a battle in the corner or on the third goal a giveaway, moments like that at the end you look back as being the turning point."

"It's kind of like a mustang or stallion that you have to break -- you see all this potential but it's kind of wild. I think he is still a work in progress, but he's certainly showed a lot of great signs the last five or six games he's played."

"We were just way too casual the whole second period. We never worked hard enough to deserve anything the rest of the period. And they took advantage of every silly little mistake we made. We got what we deserved."

"We desperately need the space. Our high school, especially, is severely crowded at this point and has been for years. We've known this for a long time."

"Obviously, it was an ugly scene. But I support (Parker) 100 percent."

"Electric blankets, portable heaters, insulating, all that type of winterizing, weatherizing (items) are selling early this year. Electric space heaters seem to be taking off early this year, too."

"A cynic might say he's profiting from playing with Joe Thornton, and there's some truth to that, but he did score 28 goals without a pass from Joe Thornton two years ago. And he basically was playing on a grind line, a third line, doing a lot of the work himself."

"We responded to adversity and that's important because we're going to face this kind of stuff when we're on the road."

"They looked sluggish at times and we took advantage of that. And a lot of that had to do with the pressure we created at the right times."