57 Quotes by Steve Stirling

I thought we played well the first two periods. But when the other team took it up a notch in the third, we did not respond with smart hockey, plain and simple.

I thought our penalty kill was a little better tonight. And that, coupled with Snowy making the big save when he needed to. was the difference.

Our thoughts are with Jason tonight. He knows he has the complete support of his team. We look forward to getting him back, but that's for another day. The good news is that he's going to be OK.

I think Snow played a good game. I thought he gave us a chance. We let him down. That's the last person I'm worried about. We took lazy, dumb non-hard working penalties. It only takes one bad clear, one play. Good teams finally score on you. That's what happened.

I think he was excited to be back. No, I'm not surprised he did what he did.

That was the turning point of the game for us. If the Rangers score the next goal, it would probably have set us back on our heels a bit.

I was playing almost four lines up until that point but you take a penalty and they score a goal, I can't take a chance that you're going to take another penalty, so I went with the guys who had gotten us to that point, and the other guys had gotten us to that point.

We got away from the little things. Chipping when you're supposed to, getting to center ice, we don't get it in deep like we're supposed to. The little things that good teams do, we didn't do.

You'd like to have a couple of those a year. You don't usually get any of those at this level.