Rich Carpiniello at the Rangers Report has numerous quotes from John Tortorella and players on tomorrow’s game from practice today…
Tortorella on the short memory his team has had:
“It’s got to be really short. We play at 12:30 tomorrow. Listen, this team has bounced back from clunkers that we’ve played, from injuries, from a lot of different things this year. And we have full trust that we will be ready to play. Again, like I said, we lose control as far as losing last night. But you wake up today, you go to work and you need to look what’s ahead of you here. They’ve bounced back in a lot of different situations this year. They’ll do it tomorrow.”
Marian Gaborik on tomorrow’s game…
“We have to stick together and focus on this one last game. Whatever happened last game, it happened. We don’t want to look back to it. We really just want to focus on this last game. It’s do-or-die, so we’re going to approach it that way and everybody’s going to be ready.”
Gaborik did not want to talk about being benched after his horrific defensive play (or lack thereof) against Atlanta.
…weak.
Brandon Prust on playing the Devils…
“We’ve got to be loose tomorrow. You know, this is it. We can’t lose. So we’ve got to throw everything at them. We’ve got to stay patient at the same time. We’ve got to play our game, play the way that’s made us successful and we’ll be alright.”
Chris Drury on if he’ll play tomorrow…
“I don’t think that’s really even in the equation. I skated hard today and the whole goal of skating is to have a good 12-24 hours after. We’ve had that. So, I just want a good rest of the day and see how it feels tomorrow.”
Brandon Dubinsky on Game 82 being a motivator…
“Yeah, I mean, obviously we’ve got to have that fire. We’ve got to come in with that urgency and that fire. The feeling after that game, I can still feel it. Obviously it was a year ago, but you don’t forget the way that feels. So we’ve got to make sure we take care of ourselves. And we’re pretty confident we’re going to get help from some other teams.”
Henrik Lundqvist on tomorrow’s game…
“We have to see this as a Game 7, playoffs. If we don’t get it done tomorrow it probably will be over, so we don’t room for any bad games now. We just have to go out there and do our best. We can’t put too much pressure on ourselves. We just have to go out and enjoy it and see it as an exciting game and a great challenge. That’s usually when you play your best.”
…amazing job by Carp getting all these quotes. Click on the link above for more.
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