Will Kitchen
Will Kitchen
pickup starts
If he starts making a couple, they all start going in. It's the same way when we play after-school pickup games. He's the sparkplug for us a lot of times.
bbc everybody forward games gets looking mentioned points school telling throughout wants
It gets mentioned all throughout the year. Everybody wants to know when those BBC games are. All day at school everybody's telling me, 'I want 30 points or 50 points.' Everybody is looking forward to it.
festival fun says seemed
Everyone always says they need to have something to do in January. A film festival seemed like a fun thing.
dressing needed room team time
It's about time we got a break. The team needed it; the dressing room needed it.
deserves good gotten leader terrific tremendous worked year
He deserves everything he's gotten here. He's worked hard; he's been a good leader in the room; he's been a tremendous leader on the ice. He's been terrific for us all year long.
happened last leads lose maybe momentum three
It's been going on for maybe the last two or three games. That's what has happened with the leads we've had. Because we take penalties, we lose momentum and then we lose the lead.
finesse guard nice player true
He's a finesse player who understands the game. He's not a true guard or a true post, but he's a nice combination of both.
anyone cautious side training
It's just day-to-day. He just tweaked his groin. And anyone who does that in training camp, we're kind of more on the cautious side than anything.
effort guys hearts played terrific
No, not at all. Our effort was terrific out there. Our guys played their hearts out.
enjoy fans lots open players quick
Oh, it was terrific. I think once we get going here, the fans are going to really enjoy our game, as you can see out there. It's a quick game, there's lots of open ice, so I think the more the players get used to the rules, the better the game's going to be.
couple
There have been a couple times I thought I would give up.
calm looks net past scoring tough
We had some scoring chances, but it's tough to get it past Luongo. He looks very calm in the net and you look at their coaches, they look very calm over there.
couple expect miracles moved worked
We moved it around. Had a couple of chances, but the first day we worked on it was today. You can't expect miracles out of it.
coming decisions ice move players time
We couldn't give (Downey) the ice time that he thought he needed, so we had to make a move and take a look at some of these young players because we've got to make decisions on them coming up.