More - Mike Modano Quotes

You'd think USA Hockey would be a well-oiled machine. But it's not.

Mike Modano

 

We're always underdogs in one of these tournaments. The brains that figure out where we fit in, that's their job. We've always flown under the radar. Hopefully we're able to surprise some people and change some opinions.

Mike Modano

 Brains

We did exactly what we wanted to do, we got great looks at the net, we moved the puck around well, we had good point blank shots, we did everything but put it in.

Mike Modano

 

Good position, good pressure, being patient, being assertive. There was no rush to do things, we were patient. We've grown accustomed to that kind of performance, otherwise we wouldn't have won our division.

Mike Modano

 

They allow you the wide shots so the shots are very misleading (shots on goal statistics). It's hard to find a way to get the puck to the middle.

Mike Modano

 

Maybe we need some new blood in there. You'd think USA Hockey would be more of a well-oiled operation. Basically, we were on our own as far as flights, hotels, tickets, stuff we normally wouldn't have to worry about and we could just focus on hockey.

Mike Modano

 Blood

It was a matter of shooting the puck on net and seeing what happens.

Mike Modano

 

It was an exciting afternoon. NBC probably couldn't have asked for a better game.

Mike Modano

 

They're all 19, 20, 21, the same age we were when we were coming in for the Canada Cup in '91. Either this one or the next Olympics will be their time to take over.

Mike Modano

 Age And Aging

They're playing desperate hockey so we knew it would be a tight game and they would be aggressive. We knew it would be a good test and we wanted to see how we'd respond.

Mike Modano