Michael Ryder Quotations

He's doing all right. He was sure excited to be drafted by Calgary, that's for sure. He's doing really well, actually.

Getting back-to-back shutouts is pretty impressive, especially against two good teams like that. So his confidence is sky high.

We knew we had to come back in the second pretty strong and I think we did that, we came back and scored two goals to tie it up, ... They managed to get another one but we came out of that with a positive attitude. We won the period and we just had to work on it in the third.

I just shot it, and it went in five-hole.

I've had chances, but I haven't been able to bury them. I had a chance last night, but the puck went through some skates and by the time I had control of it, I was in too close. But I think it's a matter of scoring a couple and then they'll start coming.

Since it was my first one the guys hit me on the head a couple of times and I don't know if I've got a concussion. It's kind of cool to get it under my belt.

Sheldon (Souray) shot it at the net and Saku (Koivu) had a shot at it and (Alex) Kovalev had a shot, and I suddenly found myself with an open net,

The main thing is that we got another win. It was kind of a rush to get my first hat trick. There were a lot of positive things we did yesterday. Our goaltender made the saves when we needed it to get out of the slump.

We managed to come back from behind and kept it close the whole game.

Before these two games we had trouble scoring and we knew what these two games meant in the standings.