Really, that was one of our better defensive efforts. They did a quality job and it shows they’re not just minor leagues, but they’re waiting for their chance in the NHL.

We were getting beat one-on-one. You’ve got to do your job. We didn’t do our jobs. The effort just wasn’t there.

I don’t care if you were watching your first hockey game ? you could tell they were way better than us. If you take as many penalties as we did, you’re not going to win...

People seem to care about points ? how many points we have and how we finish. I don’t play hockey to watch the standings. I play hockey to win.

I’m obviously pleased that we’re in a really good position. I really like our team and that hasn’t always been the case. It’s still going to take a lot of work to get in the...

It’s all about trying to outwait the player. I haven’t had much time to practice really hard lately and it showed on breakaways and stuff like that. But I’m not worried about it.

For me, having a medal from the Olympics is great. If I never play again for the Czech team, I have a medal from the World Championship (gold last year) and now the Olympics.

You get a lot of power plays and you get a lot of shots you can’t see,

We have to be hungrier around their net, and the last few games, we just haven’t done that. Sometimes shots are only statistics. You can take 100 shots, but if they’re all from the outside,...

It was just a bad game. On the first goal, I just made a mistake and got scored on and it just snowballed from there. It happens sometimes. You don’t want it, but it’s the...

A player like (Parker) shouldn’t be in the NHL anyway. The penalty cost us more than them. We got an impact player thrown out. They lost a marginal player.

We didn’t cover the slot. A lot of goals were off of rebounds or passes in front of the net. We have been on the fortunate side a few times this season, but you can’t...

Everybody has to be accountable in the dressing room and you’ve got to do the job. You can only control what you can do. I don’t know the reason why, but definitely some people just...

Crucial breakdowns to a good team is not going to work. We had opportunities but it didn’t work out.

I think that’s probably the biggest difference for us is that right now we’re very talented and that can make a real difference in scoring. As the franchise has grown and developed, you can see...

It was an embarrassing effort. We got outplayed and outscored. If you expect to play like that and win against Detroit that’s impossible.

There’s such a big difference between third and fourth. It’s satisfying to come up with a medal.

In the past, if a guy comes up to the net, you can cross-check him and push him out of the way. Now you can’t do anything. He just stands there. You have two of...

It was the right decision to cancel our other game, especially being his friend from our national team. You put life in front of everything because he was in immediate danger and he could’ve lost...

He felt the team had a better chance to win without me, so it’s just the way it went. Obviously disappointing for me but I’m glad we came out with a bronze.

It’s a big win for us. Our goal was to put more space between them and us in the standings.

It’s a big win against a team that’s right behind us. With the losing streak we’ve been on, it’s great for our confidence to get a win like that. Everybody has to step up.

It seems like I get asked about it twice a day from Czech journalists and from here, really asking me what I don’t have answers for. It gets old after a while. I think it...

We played a little better, but we still have critical defensive breakdowns. You can’t give a good team as many chances as we did.

I don’t know what the reason is, but we’ve been getting dominated here lately. This is the NHL, and we’re foolish if we thought we were going to start picking up easy wins. It’s going...

Does one guy play against Germany and another against Canada? You can play against Germany and someone else and get two shutouts, or you could play against Canada, give up four goals and play great....

Playing for the bronze was hard because losing the semi-final was very breaking. We are disappointed for what happened with Sweden but I’m happy with the medal.

It was right on the edge,

We scored that goal. It’s not like they gave it to us.

Brendan Witt is playing great. He blocks shots. He is also a leader. With him in the lineup the whole defense has the pressure taken off of them. We have a lot of young guys...

It’s tough to establish yourself. You just can’t relax for a second. … We’ve been playing well. Sometimes you get good breaks at home, but to win on a consistent basis, you have to be...

You can’t stop 40 or 45 shots a night and expect to win. Detroit has five Hall of Fame players on the team. You can’t give them 45 shots.

You’ve got to protect the middle of the ice. The guys on the boards are not a concern. It’s hard to win when you’re making mistakes like that.

When one guy makes a mistake, it’s like dominoes from there. We have to be better as a team and as individuals.

I play a lot in the NHL, and I’m tired. At some point you need a little rest. I’ve played almost 50 games. This would be six games in eight days, or something like that.

I’m just trying to stop the puck. There’s nothing fancy about it.

I wasn’t too busy (last night), … They were missing a few of their guys but I thought I did pretty well.

It’s a confidence-booster for everybody to win at their rink.

I didn’t do very good. But our guys came through and scored a bunch of goals and that’s why we won.

But there are other teams that should be better, too, because of all the changes that have taken place. You look at the league right now and to be honest, I couldn’t tell you who’s...

Obviously you don’t want to play the game from behind, but we basically had the knife to our throat.

We have improved our game and the results are showing. We have been playing much smarter.

They said it’s perfectly curable and I should be fine in six months. It’s tough timing for the playoffs for me. But that’s something you don’t worry about when you think about your health.

We had been scoring a lot of goals and maybe we felt like we just couldn’t lose. We started playing loose, but now we’re not scoring four or five goals a game per night. And...

I think we have as good of a chance for gold as we did before today. This doesn’t put you out of the tournament.

It’s always a big momentum shift to give up a short-handed goal. Naturally, we showed a lot of life after that.

On Wednesday, every play, every minute, every shift counts, … That’s what we’re trying to get ready for.

Such a good couple nights for us. We did it again, we give them chances on the power play. They had like three posts it could have been different. It was our night. We had...

You’ve got to play with urgency and we aren’t playing with urgency right now. That’s why we’re a step late everywhere. That’s why teams are scoring on us. It’s a long season and there are...

A couple of times it was by my own players. But I’ve got to learn to deal with traffic. Maybe that’s something I need to address in practice, just fighting through screens.