Oriel Quotes

You make those quick decisions and you go for it. - Lou Lamoriello

You just keep working. You can't look back. I'm not worried about them pressing offensively. We know what we have to do. - Lou Lamoriello

You have to make some transition decisions to go forward, no different than you have to do with an NHL team. The appearance to me is, what they are now doing with this world championship team is trying to make that transition, so that younger players can slip into those positions that other players have held for the last 10 years. They need to gain experience. - Lou Lamoriello

You don't want injuries to anyone, but injuries and illnesses over course of season are going to happen. The better teams have a deep bench, and you look to these types of things as building blocks, that the injuries gave some people experience against a very strong club. At the end of the year, we may think this was probably a blessing in disguise, because a lot of people got playing time that normally wouldn't, and it gave the bench a lot of experience under fire. - Ted Moriello

You could look right through that lineup tonight, and I don't know if you could find any passengers. That, to me, is the most impressive thing you could say. - Lou Lamoriello

You can't take that many penalties in a game like this. It ended up putting a lot of pressure on a lot of people. - Lou Lamoriello

You can't take anything away from the whole game. That was one heck of a hockey game. You couldn't ask for a better one. Either team could have come out with the victory. - Lou Lamoriello

You can't ask for a better game than what Tommy gave us. He's a true veteran. I could see he got his legs under him. - Lou Lamoriello

With all due respect to Scott Stevens, for whom I have the deepest respect and admiration, we have a defense now that I consider better than the one that we had when we last played (2003-2004). - Lou Lamoriello

Why don't you answer that question? - Lou Lamoriello