19 Quotes by Matthew Barnaby

It's a good start for us tonight. We want to win hockey games. We're not going to make any excuses about the way we played. We're just going to try to play better.

It's the way we settle things around here. There's nothing to read into it.

It's an anxious time. Getting traded can be a life-altering experience. With a team in our situation, you know they want to make improvements for next year, and you know there's players that other teams might want.

It's different times now, but they were upbeat and they positioned themselves very well for when CBA was signed. We knew they would be active. We expected them to do big things, and they expressed that to us. That was a big reason we signed here.

It wasn't any one thing. When you're with somebody 20 hours in a 24-hour day, things build up. I probably woke up on the wrong side of the bed, and he was trying to settle me down.

I'm really worried about the future of the game. I believe that people in Canada are going to be excited when they open the doors and they're going to go back to watch the game because they love it. That's not the case in the United States. It's just a different set of circumstances down here. People don't feel the same way about hockey.

I'll bet for a good five years there's been rumors at every deadline that I'm going to Ottawa.

If you worry about it, you're going to drive yourself nuts. It can definitely hurt your play if you're mentioned in trade rumors, if you're a worrywart or if you're not a confident person. I try to tell everyone that you can't worry about it. A trade will come when you least expect it.

I didn't throw the puck hard at all. I was just trying to flip it out of the zone. I saw there was no defense there and I was just praying for the puck to stay in.