91 Quotes by Don Waddell

We have all of the best American scorers here. But it's hard to score here. Look at the low scores. The defense and goaltending is so good here.

We probably didn't talk about Chris for the first two months and then on one of our (team evaluation) calls in early December, the name was brought up and everyone jumped on board with it. He played himself on this team.

We have lots of priorities and things to do. Marc had a good year. We have to sit down and analyze all this.

We did talk about Ryan Miller quite a bit. The other three guys are all starting goalies in the NHL right now.

We did a rating system all year and these guys deserved to be here. It wasn't that Brian was a bad player or anything than that it was just that these guys performed better and these guys were a better fit for what we were looking for.

We're out of the tournament, but it's not like we have to blow it up and start over.

We have 12 players that have never competed in the Olympics. That's exciting because these guys have never been through this before and they'll bring a lot of excitement to the game.

We all talk about how we've been in a transition period. ... We have a lot of good young players and a lot of guys coming in, and we can take the positives out of that.

The orientation camp will be a terrific opportunity for our staff to come together with the candidates for our Olympic team to assess the potential makeup of our squad. It will not be a tryout camp as the evaluation process will continue through the first part of the NHL season, however it will be an important first step in the process.