We expected to be a good team, but nobody expects something like this.


Lindy Ruff

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So this is going to be drill!?
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We fought hard. Nobody gave us much of a chance to win this game, nobody expected us to hang with th...
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That's something I don't want to hear, that nobody wants to hear. Who wants to be just a good home t...
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Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!
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They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected.
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I had a really good year, but I never expected I'd get an award like this.
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Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, ...
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It's the type of win you have to muster up with the injuries.
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A lot of mannerisms remind me of his dad, kind of the way he skates and the fact he's a real smart p...
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We missed too many opportunities. We didn't convert.
LINDY RUFF
We dug ourselves a hole, and we tried to dig ourselves out of it. We kept it close until late, but t...
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It's the one area we've really been working on. We did a much better job tonight, and we needed it t...
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We're deep on speed up front. That's the new game.
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He's been put on the concussion program again, but the first one was so severe I think the program m...
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To lose a player like that, because he wants to go low and cut his knees out, that's a joke.
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When challenged, he was flopping around like a half-dead fish.
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He's got good size and good speed, but he's got to do something with it,
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I think maybe the benefit was him getting the couple weeks off late in the year. He looks as fresh a...
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We really feel we've got a hidden gem if we can get him back to that level that he was at the end of...
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When you see a guy hit his head that hard, you're worried about one thing: a concussion. But he had ...
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There's a room in there where the guys are upset, they're not happy. And that just tells you that th...
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Playing our own end, we've been flat-out sloppy.
LINDY RUFF
Just to go in there and hack away at it is the key to that goal. And we stayed with it. It was easy ...
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We got scored against on the few chances we gave up. We only got scored against because maybe we wer...
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He can win a game by himself. They got a couple of lucky bounces, but he made the difference.
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J.P.'s looking real good. I like the way he's skating. We're going to start pushing him harder and h...
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That one right there is in the concussion category already. He wasn't doing well even at the end of ...
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I think we've seen the benefit of how we play, and the fans have come back. They like how we play an...
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He wasn't out, but he wasn't there. I had a conversation with him and it was more like a conversatio...
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With the new rules he's going to score. Still, I'll take some of the grind and some of the front-of-...
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He was noticed. He ran over a few bodies. He knocked Fitzpatrick down a couple times.
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I thought about giving him another start, but I thought there was fatigue in Marty's game and, with ...
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If it's positive, we want to get it done ASAP. The diagnosis looks like it's leaning toward sports h...
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I don't think you can close the book on three [goalies], even.
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If you're going to go low, show a little bit of guts. If you're challenged by another guy, don't hit...
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It's a distinct kicking motion. It was kicked in, and I'm sure we'll get an apology from the league ...
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We played them pretty even for most of the game. But our power play struggled, and that threw a lot ...
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He said it actually caught him where they reduced the size of the blocker, where they took some of t...
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Both goaltenders made great saves in the game, Dom just made more. From where I was standing, he was...
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He said it actually caught him where they reduced the size of the blocker, where they took some of t...
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It's the same time frame as J.P., the two-month range. We're looking at the same operation and the s...
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Our execution and passing wasn't very good. We had a couple of guys on a couple of shifts who couldn...
LINDY RUFF
The first seven minutes was as poorly as I've seen us play in a while. Our execution, our passing . ...
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Miller made the key saves when we needed him. That's all you can ask of him.
LINDY RUFF
We played them pretty even for most of the game. But our execution was not very good.
LINDY RUFF
He still wasn't feeling well today, from dizziness, generally foggy. He definitely will be in that c...
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I thought it was great idea, just to give the fans a wave and just a sign that it's been the team al...
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The math has been really good for us until tonight.
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There's no quit in our team. Check our record, the number of games we've won when we've been down by...
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He was solid. He saw everything and was totally under control. He gave us momentum.
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Everybody's schedule is tough. I think we have one of the toughest. I don't know if there's another ...
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We've had six (penalties) both nights, which I think is very good under the new terms. You look arou...
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We really played a tremendous game. We gave up scoring chances because maybe we were a little too ag...
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Maybe Jochen needed to be carried off the ice, and then that's a suspension. That's sad, but maybe t...
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We've had a great case of ham and egg this year. When the goaltending has given up three or four we'...
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He's going to be a tremendous asset. He's well-respected. He's passionate about the game. From his p...
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When we put him in contact situation and we ran him through some drills in Tampa Bay, he didn't do s...
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He's not well. I'd put him in the serious category. He wasn't doing well, even at the end of the gam...
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We've got a great group of guys here that have worked extremely hard in the first 43 games. We just ...
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There's eight, nine teams that have dealt with more than us. We've dealt with our share, and I think...
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Danny and Chris were chosen for what they mean to the team, on and off the ice. Both guys show treme...
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You don't want to dig a hole. We kept it close until late, but our passing was awful, and our shooti...
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I don't believe it was inadvertent. But he definitely got him with his stick.
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It came down to the guys that are going the hardest. We had a five-on-three where I didn't like the ...
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He drove on Hecht, took out his knee, went after his head. It's a joke, an absolute joke. Watch the ...
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We're working on a bigger thing for the playoffs and this is painful. But I think we're close now.
LINDY RUFF
We played a good third period. We probably had five or six real good chances when we had them on the...
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It would be tough to stand here and explain to you guys how they had our number if we had lost tonig...
LINDY RUFF
Execution wasn't our strong suit. We made enough mistakes to lose it, and didn't finish enough plays...
LINDY RUFF
We mentioned that it looked like he was rattled and that we should get more pucks to the net.
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I hate to say it, because it sounds like I'm bragging, but with the team we have, this year is going...
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Penalties, penalties, penalties. But you know what, nobody on that team ever gave up. Nobody on that...
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It's very difficult to begin to understand something like this, ... It's something that was not expe...
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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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We've got that Gill magic, I guess. Nobody even expected us to be here. To come out and play like we...
CRAIG STINNETT
This was not something that was expected. We never imagined we'd be working with this population.
KAREN KNIGHT
We expected to be in the playoffs, but it feels good. But it's sad because I'm a senior.
ANA DELGADO
Not to be disrespectful, but we expected to win this game.
MATT HASSELBECK
It helps us being the underdog. We have nothing to lose. Nobody expects us to win except ourselves.
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