Daniel Alfredsson
Daniel Alfredsson
Daniel Alfredssonis a Swedish retired professional ice hockey player. He spent 18 seasons in the National Hockey League, 17 with the Ottawa Senators and played his final year with the Detroit Red Wings. He signed a one-day contract on December 4, 2014 to retire as a member of the Ottawa Senators. He later signed a part-time job with the Ottawa Senators as an advisor to the General Manager on September 17th, 2015...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth11 December 1972
CityGothenburg, Sweden
against respect won
They've won it. We can play well against them, but, at the same time, we do respect them.
fun knew lose rest tried
We tried today, no question. We knew we were in the quarter-finals with not much rest between games, but it's not fun to lose any game.
biggest ready
We were ready to play from the beginning, that's the biggest thing we take from this win.
allowed controlled gave good obviously puck start
We controlled the puck pretty well. We got off to a good start start, and obviously that gave us the win. It put them back on their heels. That allowed us to play a lot smarter.
anybody canada less maybe
We all feel the pressure. Maybe Canada more than anybody and the U.S. less than anybody but we all feel the pressure.
against bring fear game hopefully smelled tomorrow
We all smelled the fear of that game against Switzerland. Hopefully we can bring that out tomorrow as well.
boost building coming game knew playoffs win
We all knew coming into this building it would be a hard-fought game. It was a big boost for us going into the playoffs to win a big game like that.
guy happiness happy injured net optimum ray
The optimum would be to have him (Hasek) in net but he's injured and we're happy the way Ray has been playing. He's going to be the guy for us.
behind conference everybody executive okay support sure
This was Ted's idea. He had the support on the (Aug. 31) conference call, but he wanted to make sure that everybody was okay with him being the executive director. Hopefully, we'll be able to put this all behind us.
best few knows last quite tournament
There's quite a few of us that are a little over 30 and who knows this may be our last big tournament together, we want to make the best out of it.
desperate played slump teams
We've had some injuries, we went into a slump and we've played some teams that are more desperate than us in some cases.
black near stick switched tape white
I used black tape the whole game, but switched to an old stick that had white near the end.
confidence
Things are going well, you know, and confidence is a big thing.
conference playoffs
This conference playoffs is going to be very tough.