Simon Gagne
Simon Gagne
Simon Gagnéis a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. He played for the Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Los Angeles Kings and Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. He spent the first 10 seasons of his NHL career with the Flyers, followed by a season in Tampa Bay, and two with Los Angelesbefore returning to Philadelphia via trade for the end of the lockout-shortened 2012–13 season. On June 11, 2012, he won the Stanley Cup championship as a...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth29 February 1980
CityQuebec City, Canada
We wanted to get back on track. You go two games without scoring a goal and it gets in your mind a bit.
It (Olympics) is definitely a step up from the NHL regular season play.
It's tough news to take right now, especially with the start I have had and everything was going well. Right now, we're going through so many injuries and my turn came.
It's not supposed to be like that. But I think everybody knows that this game was maybe looking a little bit easier than Ottawa, New York and New Jersey. This may have been our toughest game this week. That's not right when you come in like that. It doesn't give respect to the other team and maybe that's what we did (Tuesday).
It's the kind of game you look at at the end of the season and that may be two points we could have had in the standings. All the work we did the last few games was great, but to play the way we played tonight and not put the effort into at least getting the chance to get those two points is not the right way to do it.
That's a big number. It was good to get this one. I don't want to say I was not focusing on the game, but it will be a lot easier to focus.
It was a great effort by our team, ... We had the lead in Carolina and we found a way to lose that game a couple of nights ago. We were in the same situation tonight and I think we played a pretty strong game for 60 minutes. It was a huge win for us here in Ottawa.
I've known him since 2002, so I might get a call later tonight after the game.
It was a great win for us against one of the best teams right now. We need these points. Winning at home is huge for us. We haven't really had a good stretch at home the last few games.
It was a great win for us against one of the best teams right now.
It's always fun when you got those lucky goals on your side.
It looks like every night it is tougher and tougher to score goals, and you face the best line on the road.
It's going to be the biggest game of the year. The backs are to the wall right now, and if you're not ready for this one you're never going to be ready.
It?s going to be like that all season and we need to get used to it. Something that was natural to do before, I can?t do now.