22 Quotes by Alyn McCauley

Where it gets really complicated is some player reps are on different teams now and some aren't even playing. Some executive-committee members have retired. So who gets a vote? Who still has a say in the matter? Without those guys in there, should somebody be promoted?

We let two games in a row slip, and after what occurred earlier in the year, we thought we should address it and take care of things quickly.

Maybe we should hear that in our meetings. Maybe that'll wake us up. They have guys who work hard. They're a decent team that's run into some problems that have kept them from being closer to the playoff race, but we've had issues with them all season long. We have to bring our better game.

Maybe it will be ugly, but we need to get the job done.

Maybe but we've set it up in a simple way that we dump the puck in and support each other very closely, so even if you are forcing it a little bit, at worst you're just kind of giving it up along the wall.

Obviously it was a set play and we didn't react to it well enough.

I didn't really see the goal. I was trying to recoil my tongue from a two-minute penalty-kill, and then I saw Bernie put his hand up. I was told later that it was quite the move.

I don't know why that is. We focus on that and in the last little while we've had three days between games. We just haven't come out the way we'd like to.

We make it tougher than we needed to. We got away from things we wanted to do.