Connor McDavid Quotes

Your best penalty killer is your goalie.

It's hard to score in this league when you don't get on the power play and don't play special teams.

At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I'm not sure when it's safe.

If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.

If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

If you have a game where you're under pressure, obviously there are going to be a lot of shots on target, and you're going to make saves, but you can't say you played well in a game where you concede five goals. It's ridiculous.

It goes without saying that no one at United ever expected any help. We understood that decisions can go against you. We believed we were the better team, and therefore, if the referee got his decisions right, then we would win the vast majority of our games.

In this game called football, we don't know who's going to the playoffs.

Anytime you give up two special-teams touchdowns, I can't imagine the numbers are too good in regards to winning that game.

I think if you're not conceding so many goals, it gives you a great platform to win games.

Defense is so important for helping your team win games and for the game in general.

Of course you don't want to concede a goal in any game.

I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.

In any other context, 'icing' is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus - a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing. But in hockey, icing merely results in the referee's raising his right hand, as if swearing an oath to the deity of downtime.

I've been on some really good teams, but we weren't able to get over the hump. It's offense, defense and special teams, and then the ball has to go your way.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

Knowing where a team will usually place a penalty can be the difference between winning or losing.

If you ask me if I got hit in Game 7 because they stole signs, I don't think so. The Astros have great players who don't have to do that. So I think that whether or not they stole signs, the results wouldn't have changed.

I don't care how good you play, if the team is losing, it doesn't matter.

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

A faithless fan can make a team lose a game they have won.

There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.

The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.

Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'