208 Quotes by Barry Trotz

One of our goals is to have home-ice advantage. We're not going to look behind us. We've just got to look forward. These are playoff-type games, and we found a way to win.

I guess I thought that there might be more human element allowed. You know, where it (the penalty) occurred, whether it was near the puck, whether it had any effect on the play. But no, they're doing it the same way. That surprised me a little.

I didn't like the way we played our game. The second period killed us. A lot it was due to face-offs. It started there. Structurally, we didn't play intelligently and that bothered me. When you do that against a good team like Atlanta, they will tear you apart.

I can't really say a whole lot that you can print. Any time you give up three power-play goals in a game, your chances of winning aren't very good. We had a lot of guys who were taxed by all the penalties these last two games.

I don't think our key guys were strong tonight. Our key guys carry the team and they're going to have to be stronger for us to be successful. Our whole core group has to step up and do a better job.

I give our guys a lot of credit. They battled back to tie it up and took it to overtime to get a point there.

He made a great pass on ( Scott Walker 's) goal (last Sunday). That's what experience brings. He sees the game at a little slower pace than some of the young guys.

We just have to do that in San Jose.

He's a great player. He's got great hands and he's got speed. He wants the puck all the time. He got three goals and he will be in the Hall of Fame if keeps scoring like that in the National Hockey League, there's no question. But we never got a piece of him all night and we have to set that stage that way and we didn't. He got the hat trick and he deserved it.