Robert Esche
Robert Esche
Robert L. Escheis an American former professional ice hockey goaltender who is the current president of the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League. He previously played eight seasons in the National Hockey Leaguefor the Phoenix Coyotes and Philadelphia Flyers...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth22 January 1978
carry future judge players team unfair
There are some young players in here who are going to carry the team in the future. I think it would be pretty unfair to judge them right now.
breaking calm clutch cracking heat nor relaxed sees situations team
You have to be very calm, especially in the most clutch situations in a game. If the other team sees that a goalie is calm and relaxed in the heat of battle, that's a pretty intimidating thing. They know they are not breaking nor cracking him.
bad focus gives great lets pressure task teammates tunnel vision
You feel the pressure of the city, the pressure of your teammates and the pressure of the organization to play to the best. Pressure is not a bad word. It's a great word. It gives you tunnel vision and lets you focus on the task at hand.
bad crying effort guy lack mean realistic start team
I've always been very realistic with everything my whole career. It is what it is. It doesn't mean I'm going to start being a bad team guy or give a lack of effort ... I'm not crying over spilled milk.
capable handling team thrown whatever
I like to think our team is capable of handling whatever is thrown at us.
effort team
It's a team effort and it's always going to be like that.
guys looked minutes played solid tonight
We played a solid 60 minutes tonight. Tonight we put everything together. I didn't have to do much. The guys were awesome. It looked like a real Flyers game.
accurate almost bigger high hit missed net problem shots wide wing year
We had almost 60 (blocks or misses), and that was a bigger problem for us. We missed the net on too many shots that all year we hit the net on. We shot it high and wide off the wing where we had been accurate all year.
great knew pass push quick
I think I knew he was there; you always know when he's on the ice, he's such a great little player. He (Hecht) made a quick enough pass that I couldn't make the push to get over there.
adjust game games guy learned month needs played style
My style is I'm not a guy who needs a whole lot of games. When I was a backup, I played one game a month or two games a month. You have to be ready. That's kind of how I always approached it. I learned to adjust to that.
against game played time
We've played pretty well against them this year. At this time of the year, every game can go one way or the other.
instead learn net worrying
We just have to learn to play from the net out defensively instead of worrying so much about offense.
anybody fans front game home job owe watching
We're embarrassed, dejected, stunned. To a man, we know we can do a lot better and we will. I don't think anybody has to say anything to get anybody going. We have a big job in front of us. We owe it to all our fans that were watching the game back home to come home and to come home strong.
days hit
I got fortunate; they just hit me. Some days they hit you, and some days they don't.