319 Quotes by Lindy Ruff

The key to deserving the victory was the amount of battle we had in the penalty-kill situations.

We have to continue to grind away. The energy level of our team isn't great. We're mucking through it.

The last three games we got three points. Our concern is we want to continue playing well. The number of chances we're creating again and shots we're getting is the game we want to play.

The message this morning was we took a lot of pride in being a very disciplined club, and I thought we were undisciplined. I thought it started with myself behind the bench. We have to get the composure back, stay away from the officials and not worry about the call. We're going to get some, we're not gonna get some. We've taken a lot of pride in that, and I think we started using that as an excuse. We wiped that off the board again.

We got scored against on the few chances we gave up. We only got scored against because maybe we were too aggressive. That same aggressiveness won us the game. We dominated the third period, gave up one shot, and we didn't look back.

We expected to be a good team, but nobody expects something like this.

I'm very appreciative from ownership all the way down, the faith they've shown,

Use a different word if you want, but I thought they did. The more they acted like idiots, the more we wanted to play.

In a long series, they're going to wear down all our old guys. I think our young guys can handle a long series. You look around at every playoff series, they're not decided in three games and they're usually not decided in four games. Not for a minute do I think a long series will hurt our team.