Quotes
"I wonder if Mike expected me to hold him up. He jumped up into my arms--almost body-slammed me." Dean McAmmond, who was first to greet Mike Watt after Watt's first NHL goal.
"He's not a dirty player, he just likes to hit." Tie Domi, responding to the hit made by Bryan Marchment on Mike Modano.
"It was a lot of fun" Jason Arnott talking about the game played against his old team the Oilers.
"I'm really upset that all this stuff is happening, that people would think we were all hammered and destroy furniture and that we don't care about the Olympics---that's not true," said Doug Weight a member of the U.S. team that was eliminated bit it's 4-1 loss to the Czechs in the quarter-finals.
"We were really ticked off that we lost that game," Weight said. "We got back to the village really late. Some of the guys were wrestling and stuff, but that's it. As for the broken chairs, we're big guys and the chairs arn't really strong and some of the had been broken since we got here just from sitting on them to play cards."
"I was pretty tired, I mean, really tired," said the Janne Niinimaa 22-year-old defenceman whose acquisition made Oiler GM Glen Sather the talk of the NHL on Tuesday. "A three-hour wait in the Toronto airport, five hours' sleep... but on the other hand, I was so pumped up playing the first game with a new team, it compensated.
"First things first. We needed that win and we got it. At least I didn't screw up for the boys. I think even dead-tired, that ice really got me going. The difference is huge. That has to be the best ice in the league." Said Janne Niinimaa after his first game with the Oilers.
"He's a good skater, he's got good skills, a good shot, he can pass the puckand he can play on the power play," Said Roman Hamrlik on Janne Niinimaa "Is there anything I forgot?"
"It was the Battle of Alberta technically but it was more a battle for a playoff spot," Said Todd Marchant. "This is a building block. I know we can't keep up the win one, lose Somebody will catch us. We have to win in Vancouver (Wednesday), too."
"Six thousand goals? Least I'm in the record book for something," Said Dean McAmmond.
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