70 Quotes by Trent Yawney

We have some guys coming back, so there is going to be competition for playing time. We can only dress so many players.

We played OK at first. In the second we got away from our game and in the third we couldn't complete a pass.

When a team makes a trade, it's obviously not happy. Our first two periods were disappointing. We weren't committed to playing together or committed to our game plan.

What I'm seeing in him is a more relaxed player. He had been putting too much pressure on himself.

We really didn't see their transition game other than the first part of the first period. Their forwards are so skilled that they can really turn something very average into something that's very lucrative in an awful hurry. We managed the puck pretty well tonight.

The power-play goals were all missed assignments. We abandoned what worked in the first period: That was shooting the puck. We wanted to pass the puck into the net.

When you get those opportunities early and you don't take advantage of it, they usually come back to haunt you.

Throughout training camp, they've been our most consistent defensemen. Barker, he's coming out of junior. I'd like to see him elevate his assertiveness. He does everything at one speed, and I think he's finding, as more and more of the regulars are playing, he's caught in between sometimes.

We turned over the puck far too much. They took advantage of their opportunities. We had the game on our stick, but we didn't finish.