Sheldon Souray
Sheldon Souray
Sheldon Sharik Sourayis a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey Leaguefor the New Jersey Devils, Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars, and Anaheim Ducks. He was best known for his heavy slapshot, once setting a previous unofficial NHL record for the hardest recorded shot at the Oilers' 2009 Skills Competition...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth13 July 1976
CityElk Point, Canada
fortunate penalty taking tonight
We're just taking way too many penalties. We were fortunate tonight that our penalty killing was up to the challenge.
bad caught challenge
I think it caught the end of my stick. I wanted to challenge him, but it was just a bad break.
couple kept key momentum saves
Huet made a couple of key saves in the first, we got the momentum and kept it.
league played playing trophy
I don't think there's another goalie in the league playing as well as him. If he had played the whole season, he'd be the Vezina Trophy winner.
blame carried certainly guy last shoulders taken
It's certainly not his fault. He's been so unbelievable for us that he's last guy you'll ever blame for anything. ... He has really taken the team, the city, the fans, everything on his shoulders and has carried us right to where we are now.
mountain road
Now we have a big mountain to climb, and the road is going to be tough.
meant
I can't tell you how much that meant to us.
coffee cups four guys pot sure taking three
I'm sure there are guys who take Sudafed, but it's probably no different than having three or four cups of coffee. If guys are on drugs because they're taking a pot of coffee a day, then there's going to be a lot of us.
credit fighting goals hockey penalty played spot team three uphill
The 5-on-3 at the end of the first, they played it very well. They had the penalty killers working really hard. They didn't give us much. Credit to them, but there was a lot of hockey after that. When you spot that team three goals you're fighting an uphill battle.
easy guys held lay rest teams
I don't know if we thought things were going to be easy the rest of the way, that teams were going to lay down for us. The guys that were lineup haven't held up their end of the deal. To a man, we can all play better.
few good learn lost momentum regroup room team time worried
There's no room to get down and it's no time to be worried about this game. We're going to learn a few things from this game. We've just come off a really good streak, we lost to a good team tonight, and now we've got to regroup and get the momentum back.
happy job mean obviously ourselves rely slip teams trying win
We're still trying to win games. We're not trying to rely on other teams to get us in. I mean obviously any way we get in we're going to be happy with but we had it right there to do the job for ourselves and we let it slip away.
deal suck
We're all going to have to suck it up here and deal with it.
given last leads minutes
We have given up some leads in the last minutes of games. You just can never quit.