44 Quotes by Jeff Halpern

You never go into a game expecting a cake walk. I thought we played well enough to win. But again, the power play didn't come through in the first period on the 5-on-3. Then, they get that power play goal and we're playing catch-up.

This is probably the closest group of guys we've had. Trips like this help, because it gets everybody, especially the guys with families, involved. It brings us together. The way our team plays, we should play as well as on the road as we do at home. It's hard to figure out.

This could be a significant negative for Qwest, which is currently a large provider of wholesale transport services to BellSouth.

It was the first thing I checked when the schedule came out,

It's almost like getting traded because there's going to be a lot of new faces. There's a lot of free agents we picked up or guys we traded for.

It's going to be interesting to see how the young guys have developed. There's always one or two guys who surprise everyone.

It's definitely easier if you're in the playoffs. From that sense, this is a completely different mind-set from where you want to be. But at the same time there are a lot of guys here playing for jobs, playing for next year. At this point you're playing for pride and wanting to win as a group. But I admit we should be ashamed about some of the games we've played lately.

Anytime you come to play, you want to win, ... It's nice to walk away with a win. It's definitely not the same Pittsburgh Penguins we'll face in the regular season, but we did some good things that hopefully we can build off of.

That's a team that embarrassed us a couple times this year. You get up for things like that.