266 Quotes by John Tortorella

Your best players need to be your best players and almost dominate games. Or your goaltending dominates a game. You just need some dominating performances, and if you're going to have dominating performances, it's going to come from your best guys. And if you sprinkle two or three of those in six games, and you find a way to win four or five games, that's when you start getting that swagger back.

These guys have been skating, they've been on the ice. The big thing is to get them back into our time zone and get their bodies back on the schedule here.

I thought the key was making sure when we got down 1-0 to come back and answer right away, and obviously score a couple more after that.

This is a good hockey team. We get in, if we get in, we're going to be a dangerous hockey team.

This is a sprint right now. That's the way we're approaching it. By no means are we set. Too many crazy things happen as far as this race is concerned.

I thought parts of the game we played very well, but other parts we were brain-dead. Even in the second period when it was 3-1 I thought we weren't playing badly, but we put ourselves in a bad spot with too many penalties.

I think it's the maturity level of our club. I think we've shown that the last little while. We've stayed with it. We haven't turned into individuals, we've just tried to keep banging away.

All we're looking for is just an opportunity to try to get out of this and find some way to win a hockey game.

This is right where we want to be. I understand that they have had some success against us but I think in the past few games we played them, a turn here, a turn there it could have been different. We are looking forward to it. We are right where we want to be as we start our first round. For the past couple of months no one was going to be able to touch them. So we want the opportunity first.