Jarome Iginla
Jarome Iginla
Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginlais a Canadian professional ice hockey player and an alternate captain for the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League. He was a longtime member and former captain of the Calgary Flames and also played for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins before joining the Avalanche in 2014...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth1 July 1977
CityEdmonton, Canada
ahead club top
We do think we're going to be a really competitive club and we want to be one of the top clubs, but we know it's not going to be easy, ... We're not going to get ahead of ourselves.
ahead nobody room
But we know it's going to be tough, nobody in our room is getting ahead of it.
ahead chance fun morning saw woke
We didn't like the way we woke up this morning and saw they had jumped ahead of us. That's what makes these back-to-backs so much fun is if you lose, you get a chance to get right back at it.
ahead desperate flat fully match period start
They were more desperate than us off the start and we didn't match it. It was that first period where we were very flat and they were good. They got out ahead of us and we didn't fully get back into it.
coming habit loss winning
It is pre-season, but we're coming off a loss and we want to get into the winning habit at home.
hot
I think we're going to get hot as a team, and personally, I think I'm going to get hot too.
colorado five games hand three
It has a lot of implications in the division. We can be five up on Colorado with three games in hand or we can be three down, so it could be a big difference.
aspects needs
It isn't one thing. Look at all aspects of our game. It all needs to improve.
confidence creating feeling games good last scoring six
I think confidence it a big part of everybody's game. I think the last six games or so, I've just been feeling better and as a group, we've been creating more scoring chances, and it's good for everybody's confidence.
festive party people
People are more in a party mode, festive mode.
excuses game gone hopefully mindset
We'll try to have the same mindset for Game 2 as we did Game 1. Now hopefully all the excuses are gone and we can keep going.
ducks fun
We had a little more jump, a little more desperation. I think we had more fun tonight, too. The Ducks were doing it, too, for two periods. It was back and forth.
both moving puck special teams
Our special teams are getting better and we still want to keep moving in both categories, ... We're moving the puck and doing the things we want to do.
penalty upset
I thought it was going to be a penalty shot. I was upset with the whole play.