Will Kitchen
Will Kitchen
expect good ice might opportunity role year
He will have the opportunity to get good ice time. His role might be more than with some other teams. And put in that situation, I think he'll play well. I expect a real good year number-wise.
beat court job nice post smaller team time
We're a smaller team so we can't go down the court every time and try to post them up. We have to try to beat them down the court and we did a nice job of that tonight.
decision longer
I think that's the decision they have to make. It could be a month, it could be longer ... I'm not sure.
chance final gives great minute period saves second win
He gives is a chance to win every night. He made some great saves on their 5-on-3 (during the final minute of the second period and first minute of the third.
deserves good gotten leader terrific tremendous worked year
He deserves everything he's gotten here. He's worked hard; he's been a good leader in the room; he's been a tremendous leader on the ice. He's been terrific for us all year long.
boxing dribble good passing playing stopping
He is very good at playing the passing lanes, stopping dribble penetration and boxing out.
decisions fatigue plays poor shut starts understand
I think fatigue set in. You understand it when you're an athlete. Everything starts to shut down. You make poor decisions with the puck. We made plays out there that we haven't made in a long time. A lot of that is through fatigue.
finesse guard nice player true
He's a finesse player who understands the game. He's not a true guard or a true post, but he's a nice combination of both.
coming decisions ice move players time
We couldn't give (Downey) the ice time that he thought he needed, so we had to make a move and take a look at some of these young players because we've got to make decisions on them coming up.
almost amount bound deserved good hard minutes penalty played time tough trouble
We played hard tonight, I thought we had a good effort. We had penalty trouble once again, some deserved and some not. You get into two 5-on-3 (power plays) for that amount of time, that's tough -- they're bound to get a score. It was almost 19 minutes of power-play time for them.
good played
We played hard, I thought we had good effort.
bit caught eight finished five guys hockey january looked seven tough
I don't want to make any excuses, but I want to back up the guys a little bit because it's been a tough January so far. We just finished seven (games) in 12 (days) and five in eight nights. That's a lot of hockey and it looked like it caught up to us.
You can't take it at the end of the game.
goes puck
You've got to know where the puck is. It goes off the glass, you've got to look around ... for the puck.