Scored Quotes

You always need to get an early goal. We came here pre-season, scored early on, and it ended up being five or six. We always knew it would be a hard tie coming to a place like this. - Scott Thomson

You always get chances (to score) against a good team, and the difference is that they were finishing their chances at a much higher rate than we were. Regardless of how they scored their first goal, (they had) chances before that to get on the board. That's something we're waiting to see our team put together. - Steve Burns

Yeah, definitely, we needed someone to step up and make a play and I didn't get it done. Nobody got it done and that's what happened. We threatened at times, but we didn't come up with the big hit like they did the first time they scored. - Amy Solava

Yeah, Dany scored four goals earlier for Ottawa... so I wanted to do the same thing. - Ilya Kovalchuk

Words can't even explain. I'm so proud of these guys. Obviously, kudos to Battle Mountain for coming in. Every time got one, they came back and scored in five minutes, I think, and broke our back. But we didn't quit. That's a sign of a good team. - Chad Sloniker

With this team we just got up 2-0 (against San Diego in the NL Division Series) and just finished it. No messing around, we came out and scored a bunch of runs early in the first game and got us a lead. Maybe it's just different teams and experience. - Mark Mulder

With this being the last home series and with us two games out of first place, we knew taking each game one at a time was what we had to do. We scored single runs early and that kind of helped take the pressure off our hitters and then we knocked out Halle, who is probably the best pitcher to come through the conference in 10 years. - James Vilade

With the quarterback situation like it is right now, we don't know what it's going to be from a backup standpoint... Then we scored on the first drive and were moving the ball and the one bad play. So we said, 'You know what? Everything's moving pretty good. Why take any chances?' I understand where coach is coming from. - Trent Green

With the point totals [Minnesota has] had, it's obvious they've scored against everybody. We can't afford to have equal shots at scoring and not score. Every time we get a chance to put points on the board, we need to make sure we do. - Al Groh