Tracy Egeland
Tracy Egeland
almost biggest carry focus guys home ice leave leaving next playing seven shift three traveling
Not playing at home for almost a month, this is something we can carry into the next seven games. Our biggest focus here the next little while is to leave everything on the ice because we don't have any three (games) in three (nights). We are traveling and out of town, but at the same time, we are traveling. Guys should be leaving everything every shift on the ice.
knows less needs nobody
Everyone knows what's at stake. We have to come out and keep playing. Nobody needs to do anything more or anything less than they've been doing.
bigger games guys played sharp specialty teams won
These two games were probably a lot bigger than even the guys realize. These were pretty big games. I don't think we played as well as we can play, but we did what we had to do to win. I thought our goaltending was very sharp when it had to be, and our specialty teams won (Saturday's) game for us.
easy game last shut
It wasn't an easy year. Nothing was easy for this team. You look back from the All-Star Game to the last game of the year, and they could have shut (it) down, but they didn't.
days emotional game guys hard home needed realize settle shift takes
It was a pretty emotional two days around here. It was the first (playoff) game at home here for some of the guys. We needed a game like that that was hard fought. Now guys can settle in here and see what it takes to win, and realize you have to go here. Every shift of every game is huge.
guys learning lesson stick win
Tonight, I think that was as important a learning lesson as well as a win to show the guys here that if they stick with it, what they can accomplish.
bother good held power
We've held them on their power play, too. We've got good chances. I can't say that our power play didn't get good chances. It did. The power play doesn't really bother me.
bad checks finished good played stuck
We finished our checks and we played well and we stuck with it, through good shifts and bad shifts.
few score step third
Evan was very sharp. Come the third period, we were able to step up and score a few goals.
basically building game home
You basically look at we have a Game 7 in our home building (tonight).
both impressed kids
The way I look at it right now is, these two kids get to compete. Both of these goalies can play in the league. I've been impressed with both of them.
few good practices tells whether
That tells you how good of a goalie he is. It's going to give him some confidence. Whether he just practices for a few days, it's good.
next nine
These next nine or 10 days, we're going to find out what we're made of.
created dug eight minutes nine period played stand time
Say what you want about (goals) three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine, but the first two killed us. Once again, you look up and it's 14 minutes to go in the first period and we've dug a hole. Nothing went right for us and everything went right for them, but at the same time they created nine goals. They played hard. We have to stand up to that better.