28 Quotes by Willie Mitchell

When you're a desperate team, you do whatever it takes.

Next time he's in the net, we've got to come out with our best effort we've ever had this year. He's the first guy to walk through this dressing room, Dwayne, and say (to Schultz), 'Hey, you made the right play. It happens.' He's such a team guy. He deserves better than that.

I'd like to think I'm a guy who competes every night, and that's how I try to lead. I'm not a rah-rah-rah guy, but I try to get the spirits up in the locker room.

For some reason, we lose focus and let them get back in the game. To give up as many points as we did is just a lack of concentration on our part. We need to do a better job and we will.

He's a big man, but he does go down very easy.

He just told me to relax and I told him I'd try to do the same things I did the month before, like being consistent defensively, taking some pride on the penalty kill and playing hard against top players.

Knowing it's a rival game, we knew they were going to play way above themselves. We just didn't get the job done.

I thought we've played pretty well the past two games, but we haven't been rewarded for it. We need to find a way to win these types of games.

I think the writing was on the wall about a week ago. The Wild didn't really want to negotiate with my agent. I pretty much knew what was going to happen.