72 Quotes by Ryan Smyth

If that's what it takes, so be it.

He's coming close to playing 600 games in the NHL and those are things that you have to be able to put behind you. He did that and I thought he played really well in Game 2.

He grabbed it midway from the corner on out and gloved it down in front of him and hit it in. That's what I was saying.

He gloved it, put it down in front of him and knocked it in. It looked like he took two or three strides with it.

I take the onus on that one. I didn't get the puck in deep enough, turned it over and then it was in our net.

I thought all along he's done a pretty good job. I have full faith in him.

I think we can play both styles. We've done it in the past and it's not a huge change for us. Going up against a team like Detroit that controls the neutral zone really well, we just have to make sure we're deflecting it to the outside.

Stats don't lie. Special teams are huge. We've talked about that all year. In particular against Vancouver, we've been successful. If you get a chance, you want to bury it.

It definitely opens up the ice a bit. It's definitely less congested out there.