67 Quotes by Brian Gionta

Three one-goal losses are tough to swallow. We need to erase that. It's single-elimination now. It doesn't matter what our records are.

Yeah, we had to do it but that stuff was taken care of before we were over here. I've only played in a couple of world championships and world juniors. He's been around a lot longer, so he knows more than I would.

Yeah, we had to do it. But that stuff was all taken care of before we got over here. Our families were pretty much set, the plans were set when we got over here. So I don't know about that.

We needed the two points regardless if we gave one away. I guess that is the team to do it (against), they're at the top, and not to a team that is chasing you. We got the two points that we needed tonight.

We'll go to the drawing board and tighten things up. I thought we dominated two periods and everyone was great for them. We learned a lot. We got here, and we learned something - learned that we have to be smarter in how we play.

To be up there with him is an honor.

We played a little desperate in the third period. We didn't play with that desperation in the first and second period.

We knew we had a great team. It was a matter of being consistent. We're not letting down. We're staying focused.

We were shocked, obviously. But we knew what we did wrong. We made some mistakes and that was the reason why we didn't come out on top.