Paul Kariya Quotations

I don't remember ever going 6-0. We've got a very good team, but we still have a lot to do. We are playing very well right now.

He doesn't get a chance to show how good he is. But when he does, he's incredible.

We're in the middle of a rut right now, and we're going to have to get ourselves out of it. It's a very competitive conference, and we have to win some.

I thought we moved the puck around pretty well. I thought we played well five-on-five, but when you don't score that way, that's when the power play has to step up.

I thought we moved the puck around pretty well and we got some traffic in front of their net. But this is a long series, and they've got a great hockey club. We've got to improve our effort.

Penalties killed us all year even after being addressed. Guys need to adjust to calls.

That was a huge thrill for me. The game misses guys like that. He certainly could dominate out there.

We're definitely very happy to get that many points against that good of a team. It's hard to explain. Sometimes your expectations of what kind of game it is and what kind of score it will be are exactly opposite of what happens.

To me, that's irrelevant. What difference does it make to the guys in the dressing room if people in wherever know who they are?

The power play has basically been totally shut down and that's obviously something we need to help us out. The way the game is called today, you need at least one power-play goal per game. We were getting two per game for awhile, but we're not now.

When you have two five-on-threes like that, it's just unacceptable not to score. We just didn't make the right plays. We were making bad decisions and that's the way you lose games.

We moved the puck well and our power play was good. The more we play together, the better off we're going to be.

We've been pretty good. We've had some good games and some bad games, but we've started to play well and see each other out there.

I've love to get the opportunity again. But to be honest on my end I haven't heard anything. Obviously I don't get too much Canadian press down here. I'm in the dark really.

Defensively we didn't do a very good job. But over all it was just lack of a 60-minute effort.

As an expansion franchise, the first two or three years, they were just happy to be in the league. But once you go through that, over time, you get better and you expect more.

At home we just have to score in shootouts and obviously Sullivan and I didn't do that tonight.

This is a place where you can win, and I think it's what the league wants and that's what they got.

They have great goaltending, great work ethic, and if they lacked anything, it was some scoring punch up front. I looked at that as a big role I could fill, and I was really excited to come here and do that.

This place is great to play in. That's why home-ice is so important. It's nice to be playing this way, but we need to pick our game up a lot in the playoffs. It's a whole new season.

There might have been some of that at first. But when you start 8-0, teams are going to be ready to play you.

It's always a special game to play in the place that you grew up. I spent a number of years here and I don't know any other home.

David (Poile) asked me about it. But it's been a long year. It's time to take a break.

It was a great play by Z. He saw me curling there and he laid it right out there for me. He even put some backspin on it so it stayed there. A great pass by Z.

That's a huge game and we've got to be able to show we can bounce back. It's nice that we've got a back-to-back situation, so hopefully we'll be able to forget about this one quickly and get ready for (tonight).

I had always found it difficult to play against them and produce, ... They've always been from Day 1 a very hard-working team but they've also always had great skaters.

he promised me I'd get to drive his Porsche this year.

All series long we were in the box, can't score from there.

I'm going through the neutral zone and I've got a guy tugging me through the whole way, if I don't go down, I'm not going to get a call.

I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?