40 Quotes by Dallas Drake

I think you've got to look at teams like Carolina and the New York Rangers . A year ago nobody expected them to be where are today and all of a sudden they're Stanley Cup contenders, especially Carolina.

That was unacceptable. We just refused to shoot the puck.

We really battled back for about six weeks there. We didn't expect to make the playoffs but we had a lot of players playing well for next year. And then we got hurt again.

We're not very pretty to watch, but we work really hard. We keep it real simple and that's the only way we give ourselves a chance every night.

You look at some of how young our forwards are, but they've really stepped to the forefront and made the difference in us winning and losing hockey games. And our goaltending has been out of this world.

We got into a little bit of a pond hockey game there, and that can get you in trouble.

The Phoenix game the other night had 27 penalties in it, so that's pretty much the whole game somebody's on the power play. Believe it or not, you almost have got to forget about the score and just try and play the game as best you can with the new rule changes. I know that's hard to think about it that way, but you've got to teach yourself to adjust to the new rules as quickly as possible.

We've got to get back to remember what we did to give us success when we were winning. What gave us success was everybody contributed, it wasn't one or two guys.

We've played a lot of games in January and up to this point. And we'll play a lot after the break. So it's important for guys to get the rest.