Scott Mellanby Quotations

We know we need some help. One has to lose. You'd like to think you have decent odds.

Basically we have to run the table from now on and hope we can catch someone. It's a daunting task, but we're not going to pack it in.

I felt a lot better about my play the second half of the season. I need to talk to the organization and see how they feel. It's been a lot of fun, but we'll see what happens.

He tried to kick it with his skate. But that was because quite a few gentlemen, and I won't mention any names, were jumping away from it.

It came right over toward me, toward my stick, and I shot it across the room.

I thought we were ready to play. I think we dominated stretches of the game.

We have a lot of great players, but he's not here right now. We believe we have a good team with what we have.

We had a little shock after the first period. The first period was all us and the second was the opposite. You have to hang in there. In this game you are going to have ups and downs.

We've done a good job to this point. If we can get a little help, we'll finish it off.

We were all on the ice with hats, with the trophy, which wasn't the prize we wanted but was pretty special at that time. Then we flew from there to Colorado (for Game 1 of the Finals), so we got to enjoy that. That was probably the biggest single moment as far as the whole thing.

We're just embarrassed right now, and we should be. We don't have a lot of time to get this thing figured out. We can't get too far behind the eight ball or we're going to be in trouble. We've got to find a way.

To be able to have the kind of night I had and have a big goal like that is special for me. It was gratifying in a lot of ways.

It was a huge win for us and to contribute to that is huge. We pretty much have to run the table just (to make the playoffs), so to get the game-winning goal in a game like that is pretty special for me personally.

They made us look like we were skating in slush. There was a lot of slop out there. Give them credit. They executed.

It was embarrassing. We're professionals in here and to lose like that in our building, in any building, is about as bad as it gets. I'm kind of at a loss for words right now.

It's a good division and for years to come, I think, it's going to be pretty good. It's going to be a heck of a division, and you're seeing a lot of good rivalries.

It's been a little frustrating because we've gone at a pretty good clip and not been able to get anywhere.

It's difficult because we thought we'd figured out how to be a team and play well together. Now it's kind of like we're back where we were before. It's frustrating and you can see it in our play.

Anytime you lose the way we've lost, it's frustrating. The bottom line is we're getting outworked in every area of the game. We're getting outsmarted. We look like a kids hockey team playing against men.

Hopefully, the goal is to create some parity. The difference between making the playoffs, finishing fifth or sixth, and missing it isn't much. It's a pretty fine line.

You've got to develop your players and make good decisions. Youth and speed are, to a large degree, the answer. In the long run, (the system) is going to create some parity. It's going to be like the NFL in the sense that management has got to do a great job if you're going to be up there every year.