Shawn Horcoff
Shawn Horcoff
Shawn Paul Horcoffis a Canadian professional ice hockey centre currently an unrestricted free agent who last played with the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League. He was selected in the fourth round of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, 99th overall, by the Edmonton Oilers, with whom he played 11 seasons and served as team captain during three seasons...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth17 September 1978
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After you take that much time off it gives you a chance to kind of step into it easy. Yesterday and today we kind of felt our way into it; we don't want anyone to come back and get sore. We're going to pick it up in the next couple of days and by early next week we'll have our team together and be up to speed.
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Detroit is very much a team you can't give space to in the neutral zone.
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Probably because you're seeing two of the best road teams in the league. We both play extremely well on the road.
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It's a tough stretch. But you look at it as a good opportunity, too. If you can be successful early you can give yourself a bit of a cushion. I don't feel any more pressure this year; I feel more excited than anything about our team and our chances to be successful.
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There hasn't been one game where one team has taken it from the start and just rode with it. That's just playoff hockey between two evenly matched teams. We don't really expect too much different in Game 6.
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We never give up. We wear a lot of teams down.
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We're all wondering the same thing. We heard from exhibition games in Minnesota there were something like 10 or 15 five-on-threes, so your special teams better be pretty good.
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The media hasn't picked up on it like we have in here, but we truly believed we could be successful. We believe in ourselves, that we can get it done in the end. What other teams have done against the Red Wings has no bearing on our play. We have the confidence, and we've had it from the start, that we can get things done.
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It's still a big plateau for a lot of guys. It's a mark that everyone likes to get to. Personally, I didn't put too much emphasis on it, but I view myself more as a play-making centre.
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It's definitely an area we need to improve. If we could have improved our power play last season, just four or five per cent, we would have been in the playoffs easily.
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The kid's got unbelievable talent. It's only a matter of time for him.
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We've put ourselves in a good situation, given ourselves a good opportunity to win at home. But at the same time we realize it's going to be a tough game. We have to come out with a lot of intensity because it's not going to be easy.
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Every goalie we play against seems to have the game of his life against us. We created some excellent chances but we couldn't finish any of our chances off. Even with all the penalties we had to kill, I think we created enough offense to win the game, but when he's (Miller) making save after save, all you can do is keep shooting.
We should be pretty experienced when it comes down to it.