15 Quotes by Zenon Konopka

It's team toughness now, and we just don't have our heavyweight. We went from being the toughest team in the league to having to battle through it, I guess.

It's always bad to lose. Sometimes it takes you down a notch. We have to realize whatever team we play in the playoffs, if we don't show to play we will lose.

Not that there's anything wrong with that kind of work. We all do it. But we're hockey players. This is what we love to do, and we were in danger of not doing it anymore.

Smoking rooms. They smelled like smoke. But we don't let the little things like that affect us.

Every year in every sport a No. 1 team gets knocked off and gets upset. We got to realize if we don't show up to play we will lose, so we've got to be ready to roll.

He put a lot of things in perspective for us, and it really energized the guys in the first period. We came out with four goals (in the first period) and a strong effort, and that was directly affected by Jordan giving us a speech before the game.