54 Quotes by Kevin Constantine

We're real happy. We talked about how good they are and how sharp we'd have to be, then we gave them a goal 15 seconds into the game. Thank God that kind of woke us up, and then we started playing pretty hard.

We're looking to try and put the first half behind us. There were highs and lows and a little bit of a roller coaster ride early on. We want to take lessons from that experience and set goals for the future. But really we try to focus on - not to be cliche - a shift-to-shift, period-to-period, game-top-game basis and not worry too much about what's happened or what's in front of us. I think the future will take care of itself if we just work hard every day.

Leland was by far our best player. He was awfully good, especially the more the game wore on, the better he got.

We traded Mike partly because we felt we might well lose him anyway and partly because if we kept them both, one of our key assets would have been on the bench for half our games.

We took the least 20 banged up guys and put them on the ice. I don't really have any feelings about it at all. We needed to rest some guys and that's what we did.

He's just so important. You're always going to look at (Zach) Hamill and (Peter) Mueller and guys like that and go, 'Look at that talent, look at that skill.' You're not going to realize Mark's role is just as important. But we've been around the game long enough to know it is, so we're thrilled he made a decision to stick with it this year.

He's better nervous than comfortable. He seems to thrive on the crowd and the noise. He probably hasn't played enough yet to get comfortable, so maybe that's why he's been so good.

There aren't many who could have scored that second goal. He's definitely a special player.

He was kind of like our team against Vancouver. He got points, but I don't think he had some of his better games of the year. It's typical of what we did.