Jeff Halpern
Jeff Halpern
Jeffrey Craig Halpernis an American former professional ice hockey player...
loss proud resilience
I'm proud of the team's resilience to come back from the loss in Philly.
brought family hockey people sure thinking thursday
I'm sure on Thursday I'll be thinking about things, ... But at the same time, I'll be thinking about Thursday's game, too. Hockey is a big part of my life. It's brought people in my family a lot of joy.
anytime build definitely face good hopefully nice pittsburgh regular walk
Anytime you come to play, you want to win, ... It's nice to walk away with a win. It's definitely not the same Pittsburgh Penguins we'll face in the regular season, but we did some good things that hopefully we can build off of.
couple team
That's a team that embarrassed us a couple times this year. You get up for things like that.
advance expectation few past quarters results shown wheels
Clearly, the past few quarters of above-expectation results have shown that the wheels have not come off at AT&T in advance of the merger.
break build complacent good happen lose ourselves rebuild time trying win worst
Before going into a break you want to feel good about yourself. When you got time off the worst thing that could happen is you lose a game. You have that much more time to think about it. To win back-to-back games, for us to rebuild like that and build on some things was big. Not being complacent after a win was big for us. We're trying to claw ourselves back to that .500 level.
admit ashamed definitely easier games guys next played playing point pride time wanting win
It's definitely easier if you're in the playoffs. From that sense, this is a completely different mind-set from where you want to be. But at the same time there are a lot of guys here playing for jobs, playing for next year. At this point you're playing for pride and wanting to win as a group. But I admit we should be ashamed about some of the games we've played lately.
entertain fans game paid quite
That's not quite accurate. There are still things to play for. You're still getting paid to play, this is still a game where you try to entertain the fans so you try to go hard.
agents almost free guys picked traded
It's almost like getting traded because there's going to be a lot of new faces. There's a lot of free agents we picked up or guys we traded for.
guys surprise
It's going to be interesting to see how the young guys have developed. There's always one or two guys who surprise everyone.
came checked schedule
It was the first thing I checked when the schedule came out,
brings closest figure gets group guys hard road team trips
This is probably the closest group of guys we've had. Trips like this help, because it gets everybody, especially the guys with families, involved. It brings us together. The way our team plays, we should play as well as on the road as we do at home. It's hard to figure out.
currently large negative provider services transport wholesale
This could be a significant negative for Qwest, which is currently a large provider of wholesale transport services to BellSouth.
control games gotten quit
I don't think there's any quit in our group, even in the games that have gotten out of control at the end.