77 Quotes by Daniel Briere

When you're so close to playing, it's going to be frustrating if I don't have time to get into a game before the break.

You lose a couple games and you think it's bad luck and it'll come back, but with such a long losing streak, it made us take a look at everything again and make sure we make the adjustments before the playoffs. I really meant it when I said this will make us a better team.

You look at the beginning of the year, everybody was thinking that we were a team that, if we were lucky, we would be battling for a playoff spot in the end. That wasn't good enough for us. We found a way to clinch early and only finished three points behind Ottawa. We showed we belonged with the best. It's the same attitude that we're going to bring to the playoffs.

We definitely feel like we let Brian and Scott down. We weren't sharp. The puck was bouncing. We were losing control. We weren't executing like we usually do.

We wanted to get it on our own, we wanted to clinch by winning.

We want to go in there and try to finish it off right away.

Throughout the season we were expecting the calls to go down, the referees to stop calling the new rules. They kept it going all year.

You have to give him credit. He's been known as a defensive coach pretty much his whole career.

We don't think it's going to be easy, and we don't think that we are too good. We are a team that relies on our work ethic to win games, and that's what we have to continue to do.