As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that's your job on the team.
It doesn't matter how many goals you score; one goal is enough if you don't let one in your net.
I feel I can win the game without scoring 30 points.
Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course - when your score is really on the line - is another story.
If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don't have to produce every night.
Strikers are expected to score, and I have two goals in eight games.
If we lose games, and I don't score a lot, they gonna say I'm not scoring enough.
I'm satisfied with the way I play, but I don't evaluate my performances. I worry about what I can contribute defensively. I don't need to score. As long as we win, I don't care how many points I score.
It's crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so.
Breakaway goals are fun. When you score a quick one in front of the net, it just happens, but during a breakaway, there's about one or two seconds where you're not sure.
Everyone will expect me to score in every game, which probably isn't realistic, but I'll go out trying to do that.
It's tough coming out of Nebraska, where you're the man and you have to score, to going to the guy that sets the team up and being a role player.
I'm the Inter striker, and in football, if the strikers aren't scoring, then they're not helping.
Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.
My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.
If I don't score goals or get assists, I am not doing my job.
I started playing when I was 16. Year in, year out, people expect 20 goals from me.
I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.
I am a striker, and people expect strikers to score goals. But I don't see myself as a striker.
Sometimes when the strikers don't score, the pressure starts on them. They love to score goals.
It's always like that: strikers have to score to be confident.
If the opponent can score 10 goals, then we need to change something quickly.
I try to score in every game and I don't feel sorry for anybody: If we win and I score that's fine, nothing else matters.
I still have that forward's mentality that when I have the chances, it just ticks me off if I can't put it in.
I know I have missed some chances, but that's part of being a striker, and I know it's part of being a striker that when you don't score, people talk about it.
