Quotes by Andrew Brunette

“I think the team that has the best chemistry, plays like a team the most, is going to have the opportunity to win the most games. I dont think teams have the luxury to have more than three stars on a team anymore. I think thats the bottom line.”

“As players, I dont think thats any of our business. Theres nothing we can do about it. This is between Marian and the Wild organization. Its not between any of the players. We basically come to play and we still have a job to do. The season is not going to stop. We have a job to do and we cant worry about his situation. Thats something that he believes in and hes making a stand for it.”

“We have a lot of good character guys in the room that care about winning and care about each other. We have probably five, six, seven, eight nine guys that are like that, so I think were OK in that department.”

“This game was played in spurts. If we couldve kept it tied with five minutes to play, we couldve gotten a win tonight.”

“I think theyve taken away a little bit of the battles. Its part of hockey. If not, its kind of roller hockey. Roller hockey, thats not good.”

“We have stretches in games where we kind of lose our train our thought, we start opening up and making mistakes in different areas. We really got to make sure that we do the right things for 60 minutes. We had that nice little stretch in January when we did that and were successful.”

“Were a pretty resilient group.”

“This is such a tight battle with nine or 10 teams that are neck and neck. Coming home is big for us. We cant afford a letdown. A lot of times when youre on the road for a period of time, you come back and have a letdown for a game or two.”

“They had some good chances, but we stopped them. It was a fun game to play.”

“It was a downer when they came back to score right after we did.”