I wasn’t nervous at all. I just wanted to go out and have fun with it.

I think Dwayne silenced a lot of critics with his performance. He made three great saves and gave us a chance to win.

I think Jason Smith is the best captain in the league by far,

It was nice. It really wasn’t necessary, but it was nice. That’s an indication of what kind of man (Islanders owner) Charles (Wang) is and what kind of organization they are.

The one thing you have to be careful with every time you look at a lineup and see that you are playing a team you should beat, is that sometimes you don’t put in your...

We seemed to lose composure as the game went on.

It doesn’t seem like we have the drive we had before the Christmas holiday.

For the most part, it is still a pretty light atmosphere around here. As games go on, if it stays tied or if we fall behind, we get a little tight. We have to rely...

If he’s going to run somebody, he’s not going to run a fourth-line center. At best, it was a two-minute penalty.

They are all superstars on their own teams, but when they come there they have to rely on each other and it is a team effort. Sometimes guys have to make sacrifices on ice time...

We needed to relax. It showed in our play.

The way momentum shifts in the playoffs, it’s a big goal because you can take the crowd out of it. It calms everything down and allows the younger guys to play with more ease. Despite...

He’s got such a wit and sense of humor like no other. He says things that will cut you without being rude or obnoxious.

I don’t know where the blame or responsibility lies. Somebody should be held accountable, without question. We’re in a playoff race. What happens if we miss by one point?

They’re both very fast and dynamic teams. They can both be hard to handle when they really start coming at you.

We had a great team effort and Morrison really came up with two big saves at the end of the game to give us the two points we deserved.

I want to show the guys I can be relied on. I’ve got a lot of pride in myself and my game.

I know on the play I didn’t stick my leg out, … He was planted on his skates. I just tried to finish my check.

I think we, ultimately, felt we deserved the two points because we controlled the play of the game pretty much from start to finish.

This is a team that’s played us pretty tough this year. They’re playing pretty good hockey. They’re playing with a lot of pride and enthusiasm.

There’s no denying that I’d like to have more goals than I do. But having said that, I haven’t hurt the team. I haven’t been a liability. I’m capable of doing other things to help...

Scoring and points have become more important than winning hockey games. We’ve got to get it out of our game.

From a guy who’s had a knee-to-knee hit, I understand the reasoning of the officials, … You have to protect the players. But I saw the replay, and in this case, I think it was...

You haven’t got time to suck on your thumb and think about things that didn’t go your way.

He does what needs to be done. With Jason it’s more about what needs to be done than what needs to be said.

February has always been the toughest month I remember over my career. It’s going to be important to go into the break on a high and that means getting our game in order at home.

I haven’t played a game in over a month, so I’d like to get a few more practices in. I’ll come to the rink (Tuesday), skate, see how it is and evaluate it as every...

We’re just trying to take lanes away and take away their speed in the neutral zone.

You cannot win games in this league with spurts of effort, … And we’ve got to get our act together coming out of the gate.

We might say, as competitive players, that we’d love to get back at it right away. But if our bodies could speak for themselves they’d say give us six or seven days before you put...

I’m sure there will be a lot of everything at that meeting, such as our strategy moving forward. A lot of people may want questions answered, they may want to know what happened over the...

I’ve been full of confidence. I just needed one to go in for me. I’m still going to get my fair share of goals this year.

It’s a void that everybody thought we had and if this is us addressing it, which we all believe it is, maybe it’ll give us a bit of a boost. He came up big for...

We can’t expect to compete with the teams that are considered among the tops in our conference, the tops in our league, if we’re going to come out with slow starts like we have been.