68 Quotes by Kris Draper

Right off the bat, Mike is stressing the kind of system he wants to play. He wants to play a high-tempo game and he wants a lot of energy and intensity.

That first goal, they moved it around real good on us. We got down 2-0. We still took some penalties. We took a 5-on-3. Guys killed it off. That's the important thing.

It feels good. I think everyone is real excited about it. We weren't able to do something everyone is passionate about and loves doing.

It felt good to be back out there. It seems there's going to be a lot of specialty teams this year. I think that's what everybody's kind of talking about right now, the amount of penalties that were called. You know, basically, how are we going to adjust to it is really what it's going to come down to.

It did feel good. Hopefully, that can get something going offensively.

I was real happy for Mac. I left him a message this morning. I think just about everybody in this room is happy for him considering what he's been going through.

We feel good about what we've accomplished so far, but there's still a lot of the season left.

We have to play to these new rules, but we play to the system implemented by the coaches. Hopefully for the sake of the game, the coaches want to open it up.

We've lost two in a row, and we have to respond. To beat the elite teams in the league, it's got to be start to finish. We haven't done that the last couple of games and that's why we've lost.