98 Quotes by Bob Gainey

I think our team has to concentrate on how to test (Carolina goalie Cam Ward.). Lets' raise the shot total, the scoring chance total and get rid of any lazy or soft play around him. Let's put more responsibility on the goalie to make more saves.

I think he's proven over a long period of time that he's capable of that. We were able to access that part of his play.

You have to enjoy when you win, that's part of the package. We will, at some point, kind of let go of last night and turn our direction toward tomorrow night. I think that's fine when people have a little bit of fun.

Where we are today, we're above that (playoff) line. We're in better shape today than we were a week ago.

We'd seen a different team during the season. But they captured their level of play again (once) they got a goalie in there that gave them the saves they needed. They made it a lot more difficult for us to get scoring chances.

We have to recognize and appreciate the experience he's had with a very good team in Detroit over a long period of time, playing with great players in some of the best playoff competition, ... We have three young defencemen in Montreal (Mike Komisarek, Ron Hainsey and Andrei Markov) and his experience and knowledge will be an asset.

We have to push back so that we're moving up the standings by putting points on the board, rather than the other direction.

We have a large group of players who are coming to an age of maturity.

We've got seven games before the break and five of them are at home so we need to go home and make some hay.