(517 quotes found)
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
Wayne Gretzky
“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
“Scoring a goal is a euphoric feeling-and it's not so much the puck going in. It's the reaction from your teammates, the opponents and the fans-like, to shut up a crowd or to have your fans go berserk is the greatest feeling. It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.”
Brett Hull
“They're a little bright. But they stopped the puck.”
Rick DiPietro
“You have to get a lot of traffic in front of the guy's face so they can't see the puck. And you have to make sure you take as many shots as possible. That's going to be our strategy.”
Alex Tanguay
“[The biggest difference from Friday's game] was that we got the puck out of the zone. The winger and center came back to help all night, and we always had people in front of the net to stop shots. It was just textbook defense.”
Alec Richards
“A few times I wanted to leave my net to move the puck up but I wasn't sure where it was coming from, so I didn't.”
Adam Dennis
“The puck went in, and the referee admitted that he had blown the whistle before the puck went in and apologized. It was a really tough break. It would have been great to have the tie at that point, and take our chances in overtime.”
Alexei Yashin
“[Heyer] said he lost sight of the puck, so he blew it. That was very frustrating, because we'd finally gotten some offense going.”
Adrian Aucoin
“They have a lot of superstars and they can put the puck in the net and create a lot of scoring chances. But Nabokov and our defense kept holding, kept holding, and we finally got a chance on the power play.”