Mike Ryn
Mike Ryn
early guys learned learning playing team year
We're a much better team than we were early on. That's from guys playing together, learning the system. We've learned a lot this year from our coaches.
against beat brought definitely focus good guys last lose needed rub teams weaker
We definitely needed some more leadership. We beat a lot of good teams last year. And then we'd lose against some of the weaker ones. I think that was because of focus a lot of times. The guys we've brought in, they're very intense. That's going to rub off.
barely games guys understand until
Look around and a lot of guys have barely had 200 games in the NHL. They haven't been around that long. As a defenseman you don't really understand the game until you're up around 300.
scoring spreading time
We've been spreading out the scoring pretty well, and that's what you need at this time of the year.
against behind far games hopefully paying tampa time tough
We just got too far behind and now we're paying for it. We know it's tough this time of year. We're just going to keep on working and hopefully these games against Tampa will be key.
everybody friend god good kid moving seems thank tough
When a guy's not moving like that, it's especially scary. Thank God he seems to be all right. He's a tough kid and he's a good friend of everybody in this room.
blew games lead miss playoffs point pull stop trying
We had the lead and we blew it. We're trying to make the playoffs and every point counts. If you miss it by one, you'll probably look back at this game, look at all the games we blew, and we've got to stop doing that. We've got to pull them out.
chances early few playing running trying
Early on we were playing them the way we wanted to play them. Then we get down a few and we're running and gunning trying to get chances back. That's what they want you to do.
affect games left ourselves sorry
We can't let this affect us negatively. There's too many games left for us to feel sorry for ourselves now.
goals power reason score
We've got to score some goals on the power play. That's part of the reason we were winning; we were getting a goal here and a goal there.
gotten sleep won
I wouldn't have gotten any sleep if we hadn't won that game.
forward guess next nice note olympic picked positive season september stuff team year
I guess it's a positive note but it's still disappointing. We thought we were going to have a better season this year and it's nice to see we picked it up after the Olympic break. I think we're a much better team now than we were in September so we've got stuff to look forward to for next season.
blew game games lead learn miss playoffs point pull trying
We had a lead in that game and we blew it. We have to learn to pull those games out. ... We're trying to make the playoffs and every point counts. If you miss it by one point, you probably look back at this game.
pull
We all thought we were going to pull this one out.