Jeff Halpern
Jeff Halpern
Jeffrey Craig Halpernis an American former professional ice hockey player...
fast guys hooking wrap
You have to be fast now. You used to be able to get by with hooking and holding. Not now. You can't wrap guys up the way it was in the past.
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.
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.
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.
chance game gave half
We had a chance, we were up 3-0 with half the game done. We gave them a chance to come back.
enabling fan fans favorite game great guy line opens red score
You get a guy like that, he's going to score 25, 30, 35 goals. It will be interesting to see if the game opens up without the red line enabling him to use his speed. I don't know what Bonzai is going to do. He's been a fan favorite for so many years. It would be great for the fans to see him come back.
confidence excited gets goal monkey regular though
Even though it's not the regular season, it gets the monkey off his back, ... You could see once he scored his first goal how excited he got, how much confidence he got.
goal start tried
When we've been down a goal at the start of the third, we've tried to make too much happen,
calls heels
We were on our heels a lot and they were able to capitalize. We didn't get many calls and we could have used a break.
breakdown difference playing power
We're playing a lot better, but it's still a loss. We had a breakdown at the end of the second. Then they had a power play at the end and they scored. That was the difference in that game.
decisions either good throwing
We weren't making good decisions at either line, ... We weren't getting pucks out of own end. And in our end, we were throwing pucks away.
chances continued crack penalties power share spending time
We had our share of chances on the power play as well and we didn't take advantage. We continued to give a lot of penalties up, but that's because we are spending a lot of time in our own end. That's something we have to crack down on.
anywhere cause chaos door knowledge opens pass somebody trying
Somebody is trying to pass something they have no knowledge about, and it will cause chaos. It opens up the door to recruiting. You can go anywhere without any restrictions or consequences.