Ryan Smyth
Ryan Smyth
Ryan Alexander Gordon Smythis a retired Canadian professional ice hockey winger who played most of his career for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League. He was especially known for playing in the style of a power forward. Smyth announced his retirement on April 11, 2014, after 19 seasons in the NHL...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth21 February 1976
CityBanff, Canada
deeper dug dwell games hole ourselves sit
We can't sit and dwell on it. We've got two games left. We dug ourselves a deeper hole and we have to find a way out of it.
behind close coming games played playing
He's coming close to playing 600 games in the NHL and those are things that you have to be able to put behind you. He did that and I thought he played really well in Game 2.
deeper dig dug dwell games hole ourselves
You can't dwell on it now. We've got two games left. We just dug ourselves a deeper hole and we've got to dig out of it.
came front games guys help keeping matter settling
The new guys we got are settling in and everyone came up big tonight. Now, it's just a matter of keeping it going. We've got some big games in front of us and this (win) is going to help with the momentum, that's for sure.
capitalize opportunity
We had ample opportunity to capitalize and we never did,
definitely ice less opens
It definitely opens up the ice a bit. It's definitely less congested out there.
deep puck turned
I take the onus on that one. I didn't get the puck in deep enough, turned it over and then it was in our net.
build guys knew record
We knew these guys were experienced. And with the record they've got, it is something we want to build on.
fear
We didn't fear them. We can play with them.
easier easy hope instinct killer last nine talk
We don't make it easy on ourselves. We talk about killer instinct. Why can't we make it easier on ourselves?I don't know what it is. We have to hope we have it for these last nine games.
needed points
We needed this one badly. Right now two points are better than one.
high players step
We have a lot of young players that can step up. The expectations are high on them.
corner front grabbed hit midway
He grabbed it midway from the corner on out and gloved it down in front of him and hit it in. That's what I was saying.
front knocked looked strides three took
He gloved it, put it down in front of him and knocked it in. It looked like he took two or three strides with it.