Steve Staios Quotations

I don't think you'll see such dramatic changes, ... There will be some advantages for guys, and some disadvantages for others. Not being a 225-pound defenceman, I think that's going to be an advantage for me personally.

Juice is a competitor. He's played some great games for us in this stretch, ... I know he wants those goals back, but that's the time we have to bail him out at the other end of the rink. The one off the crossbar could have made a difference. We have to have the ability to have a big game offensively for him.

That was as big as they get at this time of the year. We knew we needed it. We didn't want to put too much pressure on it, but we certainly knew this was a huge game for us.

That's the way it is with this team. We never gave up and we believe in one another.

We were going go win the game ? we said it. I don't know if we all believed it, but we have come back in years before, especially at home.

We needed to bounce back from that Minnesota game. We played well enough to win but lost because of a couple bad breaks. Sometimes a game like that can really set a team back.

We're not sure exactly what it is. We want to get back to playing with some intensity at home.

We don't call it that. We call it pressing.

There is only so much you can do with that much talent on the ice.

We feel we're prepared and up to the task.

We checked well in the third period and made good plays under pressure in our zone.

We're going to win hockey games on emotion and physical play,

We're going to win games on emotion here,

It was two pretty opportunistic goals by them. That's going to happen. They're a great team. You can't walk away with a game when it's these guys.

They are so dynamic on the rush. You have to try and slow them down, and we like what we have done so far.

It was incredible, really. When you're the home team in something like that, it's not hard to run around and make stupid plays.

It really is a tough question to answer. We obviously feel very, very good about what's been going on, but with all the changes everywhere it's hard to predict. We think we're ready to make the next step, now we just have to go out and prove it.

It's been tough on us. I think we will be a better team in the playoffs.

Anytime you give up a lead in a game, the next one seems like every play is life or death.

Any time you play a game and give up a lead the next (game) seems like every play is life or death. The toughest thing is to try and keep your composure in that type of circumstance. We knew we really needed it. We didn't want to put too much pressure on it but this was a huge game for us.

I haven't seen anything quite like it. We feel comfortable playing in tight games and we've seen the confidence building within this dressing room.

I could hear them in the locker room saying 'Throw the puck to the net,'.

You can't have enough leadership. To me a great leader is someone who plays every game with his heart on his sleeve. That's Gator.