Breakaways Quotes

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

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 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 have seven points in those (shootouts). My confidence is high. In Europe, (the shootout's) been in for four years and I got a lot of chances on breakaways with the Finnish team. - Jussi Jokinen

We had two breakaways and missed on both of them. They had one breakaway and scored. - Bob Emery

Today I got a shutout but I want to say the team played unbelievable today on the offensive end and in the defensive zone. Two periods they don't give any chance to San Jose and the third period we played a 5-on-3 and San Jose can't score a goal on two breakaways and that's it. I thought we played really well. - Ilya Bryzgalov

Those aren't the hardest saves. We work on breakaways every day in practice. - Antero Niittymaki

They only had three good chances, but they played pretty well in the back. They were effective with the offside trap, but there is a risk of breakaways with that. That's how Adam scored his two goals. - Mark Kalat

There's always an unknown with a freshman, but she did a good job, especially clearing the ball, and handling breakaways. - Katherine Mertz