319 Quotes by Lindy Ruff

If you looked at it, you could say our team lacked regular-season experience going into the year. Our strength has been our youth. At odd times it has cost us, but it's definitely served us very well.

Every game we play, every team we play, we've talked that teams are gunning for us. The first 15 minutes they may not even try to score. They're saying, 'Let's not turn the puck over, let's not give them any chances.' You notice teams aren't taking any penalties early in the game.

If you go knee on knee and take a shot at the guy's head at the same time, you don't deserve to be in the game. We're going to the playoffs and you take out one of our best players because you couldn't take a hit. That's an absolute joke.

As soon as that last little bit of pain or whatever he's feeling leaves, he's gonna play.

I really think with more ice time you'll see bigger things. It has been that way when he's been given a larger role, and you've got to give him credit for staying ready. It's not easy being out of the lineup.

Dmitri still expresses a little discomfort, and I'm trying to be careful with that one because when we want him back, we want him back full bore. We don't want him cautious or tentative.

I'll take 100 points, but the guys got me a gift and my parents said, 'When you get a gift you should wear it.

There's plays you're going to have to eliminate and plays you have to make. The players we're counting on are going to have to step up and make those plays.

There's no quit in this team. You can't get much hotter.