You got to have dreams and obviously that [the Vezina Trophy] is one of them, … I want to be the best goalie in the league, not because I think I will be one day...

We have as good a chance as everybody, and I really believe that … This team can go all the way,

For European goalies coming over here the toughest thing is learning how to play the puck and deal with the traffic. You often have to fight through the traffic to see the puck. Those things...

It’s a brand new season. Everybody has the same chance.

Twenty-two shots is usually the whole game total for us. So for us to do that in one period was great. There’s no substitute for hard work and that’s what we were doing out there.

I’ve watched him play since I was 7-years-old. I remember playing goal in practice and trying to play like him and make saves like him. Then you grow up and realize that everybody is different....

I play to win and that is about it. My job is to stop the puck. I can’t control anything else.

We had crucial breakdowns against a good team and that is not going to work. It’s hard to win when you are making mistakes. Sometimes you can get away with mistakes, but we’re struggling right...

I would have liked to have had it, but it wasn’t the one play that decided the game.

A goalkeeper has to be ready all the time. You take your rest because you just never know.

It’s nice to be a part of some history. Our team is a young team and we don’t have a lot of records set. That’s a lot of wins to put together in this league....

A couple of times it was by my own players,

We’ve been getting some two-on-one chances or breakaways, but we’re not taking the shots. We’re shooting too much from the sides. Any goalie in the NHL is good enough to stop those.

My play, I obviously can’t be happy with. When things go wrong _ I gave up a bad goal on the first one, and get one kind of deflected for the second goal _ all...

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.