36 Quotes by Joe Nieuwendyk

Five-on-five we're a pretty good hockey club. We've got some areas we've got to address.

The story of our season really against these guys has been our inability to stay out of the penalty box. It's tough to play against a team like that.

The teams we needed to lose, lost. It's unfortunate we have to approach it like that, but that's the way it is.

Offensively they're a team that lives on the power play. So we fed them what they needed.

That's a good hockey team. They work hard and probably are as physical as anybody we play.

It's clear now the team we have to catch is Tampa. We have three big games against them and it starts tonight. I don't think anyone's going to quit in this locker room. We're going to give everything we've got and try to claw back.

It's what you have to have from your top line getting the puck in deep and getting on top of it. They support each other well and they're having success.

It's tough, because you get excited after these wins, then you get a little demoralized when the other teams win on the other nights. But we can only control what we can do here, and we've been doing a good job with that.

It will send a message in the locker room if nobody leaves at the deadline.