Jeff Halpern Quotations

When we weren't in the box, I thought we played pretty well.

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If anything, it was more us than Thornton. We gave him too much respect and as a result he had room to operate. We can't give him that much time and space.

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I always looked up to those guys, ... I was able to have Dale Hunter to talk to my first year when he had a job in the organization. Just being able to talk to him after games and after practices, it was an invaluable experience. And to play with Adam Oates and Steve Konowalchuk, there was a lot to learn. Hopefully, I took advantage of that.

We made some mistakes at the end by pressing a bit. When it's 5-1, guys' eyes got a little big. We need to cut down on those mistakes, and we will. There's definitely some things we need to do better, but I was happy with a lot of things as well.

I think when you look at what the company delivered for the fourth quarter, what you saw was significantly worse momentum in the core business than I think people were expecting. It was not a high quality earnings quarter.

Part of what we're trying to do is get pucks to the net and outwork teams along the boards, something we'd like to build on. But now pucks are just going to the net. Some of the time when we're getting a lot of those chances we're trying to get second and third opportunities. It's really just getting the bounces.

Some of the mistakes we keep making are fixable, ... There's definitely things that need to be worked on, but it's a question of going out and doing it instead of talking about it. A lot of the stuff that was said needed to be said.

I wish we played every team, but I understand that playing a lot against your division builds rivalries.

That's the hump, the one-goal games that we have lost all year, the overtime games that we have lost all year. I think we've done good things at times just finding ways to win. Good teams find a way to win, and we are close. It's not quite there.

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We were giving up between 35 and 50 shots, so something needed to change.

We need to be able to put a team away. We weren't able to do that, but we were able to get a late goal. Two breakdowns and a couple of penalties in the first, other than that, we played pretty well.

We need to be able to put a team away. We weren't able to do that.

We probably didn't deserve to be in the game. Olie played so well. We sold him out.

You have to be fast now. You used to be able to get by with hooking and holding. Not now. You can't wrap guys up the way it was in the past.

We had a chance, we were up 3-0 with half the game done. We gave them a chance to come back.

When we've been down a goal at the start of the third, we've tried to make too much happen,

We were on our heels a lot and they were able to capitalize. We didn't get many calls and we could have used a break.

We're playing a lot better, but it's still a loss. We had a breakdown at the end of the second. Then they had a power play at the end and they scored. That was the difference in that game.

We weren't making good decisions at either line, ... We weren't getting pucks out of own end. And in our end, we were throwing pucks away.

You get a guy like that, he's going to score 25, 30, 35 goals. It will be interesting to see if the game opens up without the red line enabling him to use his speed. I don't know what Bonzai is going to do. He's been a fan favorite for so many years. It would be great for the fans to see him come back.

We had our share of chances on the power play as well and we didn't take advantage. We continued to give a lot of penalties up, but that's because we are spending a lot of time in our own end. That's something we have to crack down on.

Even though it's not the regular season, it gets the monkey off his back, ... You could see once he scored his first goal how excited he got, how much confidence he got.

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That's not quite accurate. There are still things to play for. You're still getting paid to play, this is still a game where you try to entertain the fans so you try to go hard.

You never go into a game expecting a cake walk. I thought we played well enough to win. But again, the power play didn't come through in the first period on the 5-on-3. Then, they get that power play goal and we're playing catch-up.

This is probably the closest group of guys we've had. Trips like this help, because it gets everybody, especially the guys with families, involved. It brings us together. The way our team plays, we should play as well as on the road as we do at home. It's hard to figure out.

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It was the first thing I checked when the schedule came out,

It's almost like getting traded because there's going to be a lot of new faces. There's a lot of free agents we picked up or guys we traded for.

It's going to be interesting to see how the young guys have developed. There's always one or two guys who surprise everyone.

It's definitely easier if you're in the playoffs. From that sense, this is a completely different mind-set from where you want to be. But at the same time there are a lot of guys here playing for jobs, playing for next year. At this point you're playing for pride and wanting to win as a group. But I admit we should be ashamed about some of the games we've played lately.

Anytime you come to play, you want to win, ... It's nice to walk away with a win. It's definitely not the same Pittsburgh Penguins we'll face in the regular season, but we did some good things that hopefully we can build off of.

That's a team that embarrassed us a couple times this year. You get up for things like that.

I'm excited to get back out there. The first week of camp is always tough, but it's been so long, everyone's looking forward to it.

I'm proud of the team's resilience to come back from the loss in Philly.

I'm sure on Thursday I'll be thinking about things, ... But at the same time, I'll be thinking about Thursday's game, too. Hockey is a big part of my life. It's brought people in my family a lot of joy.

Clearly, the past few quarters of above-expectation results have shown that the wheels have not come off at AT&T in advance of the merger.

Before going into a break you want to feel good about yourself. When you got time off the worst thing that could happen is you lose a game. You have that much more time to think about it. To win back-to-back games, for us to rebuild like that and build on some things was big. Not being complacent after a win was big for us. We're trying to claw ourselves back to that .500 level.

He's still getting chances. I know as well as anyone, goalies are good. You are not always going to score. He's the type of guy who can go out and get four goals the next two games and erase the drought.

I don't think there's any quit in our group, even in the games that have gotten out of control at the end.

I don't think there's any question what I should do,