Breakaway Quotes

With his speed it gives us a chance to have a breakaway guy in the backfield. - Tom O'Brien

When I was in the IHL there were a few teams that used to do that. Some goaltenders just have a knack for breakaways and it can give your team a little bit of a boost. You have to know your personnel before you can make those changes and obviously Craig thinks Morrison is the guy on breakaways. - Dave Tippett

When he stopped those shots on the breakaway, we knew he was on his game. All we had to do after that is play hard and score a goal or two to win. - Kyle Wellwood

What really drives the sales of these things is a breakaway game. - Michael Goodman

We've been getting some two-on-one chances or breakaways, but we're not taking the shots. We're shooting too much from the sides. Any goalie in the NHL is good enough to stop those. - Tomas Vokoun

We're trying to do too much sometimes. If you cheat, you can get that extra step on the defense and have a 2-on-1 or breakaway. But if it doesn't work, then it's an odd-man advantage for the other team going back into our end. - Chris Clark

We'll miss Tony. He's one of our breakaway guys and I'm disappointed for him because he got a 3.5 (grade point average) during summer school and has done a great job getting back on track academically. - Rich Brooks

We put Kaitlin Smith up top to give us a little more speed and that played a difference... We had a couple of breakaways, so they had to respect that speed a little bit. That loosened up their defense and it changed things a little bit. - Leslie Foster

We knew he had breakaway ability, but I didn't know how much power had had. That surprised us. He ran through a lot of our guys' tackles. - Jim Schwartz