Brendan Shanahan
Brendan Shanahan
Brendan Frederick Shanahanis a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player who currently serves as the president and alternate governor for the Toronto Maple Leafs, having previously serving as the director of player safety for the NHL...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth23 January 1969
CityToronto, Canada
feels happy high left season seen teams
It feels early. We are happy with the start, but we know there is a lot of season left and a lot of teams we haven't seen yet. We are not getting too high on this.
conference count definitely improved people strong teams
I still see us as having a real strong lineup. Definitely the teams around us in our conference have improved but I don't think people should count us out yet.
closed coming compare definitely rather reason remain team teams
It's definitely disappointing, but as teammates, we'd like to think the door's not closed on Pavel coming back. I think the expectations remain high. This team has a lot of depth. We'd all rather have Pavel, but when you compare us to other teams in the West, there's no reason for us to use that as a crutch.
behind earlier forced games open teams
This is the way we started games earlier in the season, and we need to get back to that. When teams have to play us from behind and are forced to open things up, we're at our best.
cheering fortune good guys nice playoffs spend teams time
You don't spend that much time cheering for guys on other teams in the playoffs that much. But Darren is a good guy and with all the things he's been through, it was nice to see him have good fortune for a change.
ability both effort ends four great gritty people talk team
We rolled four lines, we got a lot of gritty effort from a lot of different people at both ends of the ice. People talk about our ability to score, but we've also got a great ability as a team to play great defense.
gained momentum penalties
We killed those penalties off, and we gained a lot of momentum from that,
great mark period played rest strong
We didn't get off to a great start. But from the 10-minute mark of the first period for the rest of the game, we played a pretty strong 50 minutes.
expected game knew proven win
We expected a big challenge. We knew we were going to have to win a game on the road. We've proven we can this season.
catch lead played start time
We've played a lot of catch up hockey. That's not good. Our start is very important. It's time for us to come out with a lead and have them play that catch up hockey, which we've been doing.
bit couple finding found knew late lost maybe messed players poise quit rotation side team ways
We lost a couple players and our rotation got a little messed up. We found a way to win. Obviously, this is a team on the other side that has been finding ways to win. There's no quit in Columbus. We knew they were going to come back. We maybe have to show a little bit more poise in our own end late in games.
good hit saves threw
I don't know what else you can do. We just threw everything at him. It's one thing to get hit by pucks, but he was actually making some pretty good saves out there.
expected few handle might personal players
I can handle it. I expected it ... that a few players might make it personal with me.
accuse case game help interest rules
No one can accuse me of self-interest in all this. You could make a case that a lot of the new rules don't help my game out at all.