John Grahame
John Grahame
John Gillies Mark Grahameis a retired professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning and Carolina Hurricanes. He won the Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004...
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It's focus time. It's time for no mistakes. We are trying to make a run here and that's our mind frame. We are taking it one game at a time.
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This part of the year is all to get you ready and to put you in game situations. You would like the outcome to be different, but the most important thing is to see what you need to work on and you can't lose sight of that.
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It's actually nice to play this much. It's what you want. You get into a nice rhythm. That's what you work hard for in the summer, and it's nice to get rewarded when you play a game and you feel good after the game and you feel good the next day. It kind of validates why you work so hard in the summer.
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Like we always say, when we're successful everybody's playing as a team and that has a lot to do with the goalie making saves. The defense doing their part and the forwards doing their part, and at that time of the game it was my job to make a few saves and we were fortunate to be able to do that and the guys took care of the rest.
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You know in a game like this that one mistake could cost you. You don't want to have that mistake on your side. That's what drives you. No mistakes that will cost you the game. Stay focused.
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I know they have these problems in every municipality. I know they just have to deal with it, and after 40 days of rain I could see where they might be in a pinch.
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I knew it was going to be difficult to sign everybody, ... I prepared for it that way in the summer, coming in in the best shape I could be in, ready to take on the responsibility of playing night in and night out.
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That is what can get you over that hump and get a team out of a little bit of a slump. I haven't been able to do that, and that's what is frustrating.
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They kept coming and coming and we weren't able to kill off those couple of power plays (early in the third period). It's a 60-minute game, not a 40-minute game.
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The fans' appreciation for having access to free parking has been . . . gratifying. We'll continue to do it.
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It's definitely frustrating. We're doing everything we can to get out of it. We had a two-goal lead, but they were able to fight back.