Eric Desjardins Quotations

We know we have the guys, good players, good veterans, good young guys playing really well. We're pretty confident with what we have. In the playoffs, you never know. We go in and feel decent, feel better about our game, anything can happen. That's what I believe. You never know.

Hockey is important, but you have your life.

You have to focus on the moment. There's no tomorrows.

I think it's going to get better, but that's no excuse. We were fine going into the third but couldn't seem to find a way to score the big goal and stop them scoring on the power play.

It has been all right for us, but we see a change, no doubt about it. We need help from our forwards more or from our partner to help us break out because teams are coming at you with speed and they are right on you. You need to have a quick out.

Robert stopped it, but it hit my skate and went under. Right away the ref called it a goal.

Look around, there are a lot of new faces. But they are all good players.

I still haven't seen the doctor. Right now it feels good, but I want to make sure I see him first. I feel good enough to go, but it's a decision I don't want to make until I see the most important guy (Dr. Peter DeLuca).

It doesn't matter who you are, you have the right to make your own decision. You shouldn't be pressured to play because you're the best. . . . If he's going there with only one leg to skate, it's tough for him to have that pressure to play.

When something like that happens you just want to make sure you make them pay. The best thing to do, rather than getting upset, is stay focused and take advantage of the five-minute major.

We gave them a pretty easy first period. We came back after that but it was too late.

Experience gets you through tough times and that's one thing we've proved so far. After going down 2-0 in the series and getting blown out in Buffalo, we played really well here. But we need to do it all over again when we go to Buffalo on Sunday.

We all the know the moves they made and we're all excited about it. It's going to be a great year.

We all talked about it this (yesterday) morning, ... A 4-2 lead for the Senators going into the third? We all changed the channel. Now, it's 'don't touch that remote.'

Everybody knows after a year off, timing is going to take a little while to come back. It's too bad for those guys, but they're serious guys. They're veterans. They'll jump right in and they'll be fine.

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

They had to come out and play strong in the first,

It?s not that I want to come back to be a savior or anything like that. I want to come back because I?m ready. Sure, it?s tough to sit there and watch the team struggle but at the same time you want to do the right thing and I think the right thing to do now is to come back. It?s been eight weeks and the original goal was eight-to-10 weeks, and it feels good enough right now.

They were moving the puck very quickly in our end (that period).

Their team was really quick on every loose puck and that's where they beat us. Every time there was a battle we came up short.

If he can play, great. But he's got to think about his health first.

I don't think a player can ruin the image of a team,

I don't think they are taking away the hitting or the battles. They don't want anybody to hold and hook and use their sticks. It's something we adapted to during the season, and they're reinforcing it in the playoffs to make sure the game is still played the same way.

I don't need wooden sticks to tell me I'm getting older.