17 Quotes by Matt Cooke

We know we can play with them. We also know we have to play as a team.

Our biggest task was not to be surprised by the work ethic of the New York Rangers because in the past they've been known not to work.

I thought it was just an ankle sprain but it turns out I have a bone bruise in my heel. At this point there is no timeline on whether I can get back before or after the Olympic break.

We feel confident. We lost to them in double overtime the third game of the season. We're playing pretty well right now, we've just been playing good competition.

Usually that little kicker in the flats we have them go down, that's the starting point. That's to kind of get them mentally prepared to go through the motions of keeping the skis underneath them, getting into that in-run position, that crouch position.

We pretty much have an open invitation to any athlete that would like to try it, free of charge.

We didn't really do anything different; they didn't really do anything different. Shots just wouldn't fall. We turned the ball over a little bit and we let them get to the offensive glass.

Up until the other day I couldn't handle the pain caused by pressure in the skate.

We just turned the ball over too many times, especially in the fourth quarter. We played really well in the second and third quarters, but in the fourth quarter they started making their perimeter shots and we couldn't score.