Joe Sakic
Joe Sakic
Joseph Steven Sakicis a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He played his entire 21-year National Hockey Leaguecareer with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise. Named captain of the team in 1992, Sakic is regarded as one of the most capable team leaders in league history and was able to motivate his team to play at a winning level. Sakic led the Avalanche to Stanley Cup titles in 1996 and 2001, being named the most valuable player of the...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth7 July 1969
CountryCanada
The game is going back and forth a lot quicker. It's nice. The players love it, and I hope the fans do.
That's great. I think everybody is looking forward to the rest and to start watching the other series. It's not going to matter who we play.
The Vancouver thing, you guys are blowing it out of proportion,
There's no question we're going to be different,
You saw how a desperate team can play. They were all over us on the ice. That is a pretty good team over there. As a player you don't want the season to end. You want to keep playing.
These guys got great goals tonight. I gotta admit to you it was a fun game to play tonight.
This is where he belongs. He assembled the team. When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky. This is where he should be.
The power play was terrible. We didn't support one another that well. ... I don't think we generated hardly any chances on the power play.
We've had injuries before and we're going to have them again. As long as you deal with it well, you'll go a long way.
We weren't very good, that's obvious, and there's no real explanation. We can't worry about this game; it's over now. We have to keep our heads up and get excited for the playoffs.
Today was just to get moving out there, get a little bit of a sweat, get rid a bit of the jet lag. We tried not to sleep today, we're trying to get adjusted as quickly as possible.
We were up 3-0 and we thought we had it, ... We have to keep on working. We had our power play chances and we could not get anything out of it.
We felt pretty good (Saturday), and we'll feel good (today). We're pretty excited about winning, but Monday we have Game 2.
We didn't think scoring would be a problem. It's hard to explain. I think the confidence was there, but we were just too tentative and didn't generate on the inside. Yesterday was a new start for us. We thought we'd improve, but it didn't happen.