Quotes by Jan Bulis

“The new rules might have had an effect, but I had good position and its tough for a right-hand shot to get around me.”

“I didnt expect it to be that strict. Well see if theyre going to do it. Maybe theyll only do it for the first month and then it will go back to what it used to be. But if its going to be like this, every team has got to start working on not using your stick in practice because theyre really calling everything. . . . Its too strict.”

“I was excited, but I thought he still might not take me because we have a lot of good players. And last year, I had a good season (third in scoring in the Czech league) but I still didnt go to the world championships.”

“I had a meeting with Bob and he told me I wasnt playing. Then I came back in the afternoon and he told me I was going to suit up. Luckily, it went well for me.”

“It was four goals on four shots. A game like this sometimes is once in a career.”

“Everythings positive in our dressing room. We dont think in terms of having lost todays game. We just look at the effort we put in during the second and third period, and tomorrow we have to do the same thing from the first minute.”

“This was a big game and big two points for us. Of course we were looking at Atlanta. We saw the score on the board there at the top. It was a crazy game.”