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
When you have everybody, it brings some confidence for the other lines. We had success with that (line) at the start of the year and hopefully it can help us win games the rest of the way.
We wanted to get back on track. You go two games without scoring a goal and it gets in your mind a bit.
We're still in first. We lost a couple games recently and they won their games so they got closer to us. It's going to be a big game. We want to stay at the top.
In the second and third periods, we didn't compete. It was pretty much one of the worst games we played this year.
I like the way the team's playing right now. It's tough, you go on the road and the games are tight, especially against New York, and we found a way to win a game on the road in overtime again. It shows the character the team has.
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.
You don?t want to think about it, but it?s in the back of your mind. In the last two games I had some great chances. It was good to get this one tonight and now I can turn the page. It will be a lot easier to focus now.
Sometimes the energy drops after that. A lot of teams are tired now, a lot of games in a short period of time, and we just need to battle and fight through it.
Without saying what adjustments that we made, we played a lot harder than we did in the second game. I don't want to say we're back in the series, but we're close.
The rebound came right onto my stick. All I had to do was put it over Marty.
This was the kind of game that you look back at the end of the season and the two points would have really helped in the standings. We had a great chance to get into first place. This is not acceptable.
You get a great feeling when you make a nice hit, or a nice play or a nice pass. But when you're the guy who puts the puck past that red line -- it's pretty much the best feeling you can have.
We need to get back to what we were doing good. We need to figure out what we're doing wrong.
We need to get as close as possible as soon as possible. That's the challenge in front of us.