Bruins Quotes from Tonight's Game

Some quotes from the Bruins on this evening's game:

Claude Julien on the attitude of the Bruins tonight…
As far as that’s concerned, I think the first period was good for us. We could even have brought our game up another notch and that’s what we needed to do in the second period.

But it’s hard to bring that when, again, the effort just wasn’t good enough tonight from most of our guys. When you’re talking about your fourth line being your hardest working line it doesn’t bode well for the hockey club. Aside from that line, nobody played to their potential. We need to have those guys play up to their potential.

Steve Begin on tonight's game...
Everybody has to show up. It’s not a two, three, four or five guys. So it’s everybody, we have 20 guys in this room. It’s cliché. You guys are going to hear that a lot but it’s but that’s how it is. A hockey game is 60 minutes and if you don’t show up for 60 minutes there’s a good chance you are not going to win the game.

Shawn Thornton on if this game was embarrassing...
It was frustrating. You will never here me say that I am embarrassed of my teammates. I’m frustrated, it wasn’t what we needed and it got away from us.

Tim Thomas on this being a game you just drop and don’t think about after tonight…
No I don’t think so. I think you better learn from it. And you better remember it. If there were any times during the year where you start to slip you look back on this game like ‘whoa’ and we have to get going or else it’s going to be ugly like that game.

claude julien's quote on tonight's series sweep

Here is a quote I found very complimentary to the character of Bruins' Coach Claude Julien:

On how it must feel, on a personal level, to win, in Montreal…

I know there are several people who would like to hear me say this is revenge. It’s not. Or people who would like to hear me say it’s more satisfying. I will continue to say this: it’s here that I got my first chance to be a coach in the NHL. I had a good stay here. Unfortunately, in our business, coaches often get fired. But we manage to land elsewhere. I’ve been lucky this way. I can say that I learned a lot here. It was my first experience. I learned a lot, under Andre Savard and even under Bob (Gainey), who was excellent with me. I grew around these guys. That is why, although I am happy to win, I am not bitter. Whether we win here or in Boston, the most important is that we win the series.