Mathieu Schneider
Mathieu Schneider
Mathieu David Schneideris an American former professional ice hockey player. Considered an offensive defenseman, Schneider played 1289 games in the National Hockey League with ten different teams, scoring 233 goals and totalling 743 points. He won the Stanley Cup in 1993 with the Montreal Canadiens...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth12 June 1969
grapes guys sour timing upset
Guys were upset over some of the things that were going on off the ice. But the timing of it, it sounded like sour grapes after losing.
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You force them to take more chances and that opens up more ice. I thought for about 15 minutes in that second period we were fairly dominant and then a couple turnovers and that seemed to turn the momentum their way.
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We've got two units that can put the puck in the net, so that makes it really difficult to guard against us.
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Everyone's playing at the top of their game right now and we feel like we have the puck all the time. We feel like we are going to win every single night. It's a good feeling to have.
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We do have another level, I think. I don't think we've showed it in a long time. We have to be a much better club from here on until the end of the year.
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It would be better for everyone. The hockey would be better. Six games in eight days is extremely difficult. But everybody is in the same boat, so you can't use that as an excuse.
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A lot of times we get caught by that because we play such a close-checking game. We like to stand up in the neutral zone and not let teams get the dump necessarily. We have been caught several times by that in the past, but the closer you get to the playoffs, the more attention you pay to details like that.
career deal five four games night played plenty schedule team time work
This is the first time in my career in the NHL that I've played four games in five nights. It's just another part of the schedule that we have to deal with. The travel's terrible, but there are plenty of excuses. I think this team has done the same thing every night -- work hard.
bottom line
The bottom line is we didn't live up to our expectations.
espn highlights life turn
That's what you're going to see when you turn on ESPN highlights every night, ... Or the OLN (Outdoor Life Network) highlights.
clean fun good pulling
That's great. These guys, they've been bugging me all year. It's all in good clean fun. Just as long as they are pulling for me in the Olympics.
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That's got to be the fastest goal scored by a new player on a new team in history. He stepped on the ice, walked right down the pipe and buried it. That was a great start.
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We're playing just good enough to lose. We've got some of the greatest goal-scorers, but we've got to finish chances.
opinion ourselves seed
I'm of the opinion that we didn't play well enough to win. We didn't play like the No.1 seed for this whole series. We put ourselves in this position, that's the unfortunate thing.