It wasn't too bad ordsprog

It wasn't too bad in the playoffs because the cortisone was working, but that started to wear off, ... And after the Atlanta (playoff) game - I took a pretty good beating down there.

. . . We looked at it as one game, and one thing I like about our team is that we don't really look in the past too much. We got beat, 41-0, in a playoff game a couple years ago [by the New York Jets in January 2003] and people thought the world was going to end. We came out the next year, and that wasn't really on our mind. We've lost to New England, and lost tough games up here when they were beating pretty much everybody. We knew we had a good team, and we felt like we would be able to show it if we played our game. And fortunately, we did. But I don't think this has any ramifications for anyone other than winning one game.

The race for that final playoff spot is extremely close this year. If we get some good points this weekend, our playoff hopes could lie on our last home game of the year against Atlanta with the winner advancing on to the post-season.

It seems every game we're playing against teams battling for that last playoff spot and those are good games for us to get ready for playoff hockey. We want to get it into their heads that they're not going to beat us in the playoffs.

[Since the NFL expanded to a 12-team playoff format in '90, 43 teams have started 4-0. Thirty-five made the playoffs... The offensively gifted young Lions, 1-2, were projected as a playoff team. They rank 29th in total offense, and QB Joey Harrington remains the favorite target of blame. He has a 57.3 passer rating. WR Charles Rogers' four-game suspension for substance abuse is the latest pothole in a very bumpy road.] I'm not happy because we have the potential to be a real good team, ... and we don't show it on offense.

The way I look at it, every game is a playoff game from here on out, ... It starts [tonight] against Connecticut. Every one of these teams will be fighting to make the playoffs, so we have to play like a playoff team.

We had different circumstances. At 7-5, understanding that every game at that point is going to be a playoff game got us battle-tested, ready for the playoffs, a lot earlier, because we turned it on in the latter part of the season. We were in playoff mode.

I thought we played really well in the first half; we just didn't knock down shots. We came a little bit unglued just because it's a playoff game, but I thought we started out the way we are capable of playing. But they wear on you with the defense.

It wasn't the day we wanted here at Atlanta. We never got a good handle on the car. It went from tight to loose. There was no grip there a couple of times. We kept working on it, but we never could get it right.

It seemed pretty average, I mean, 2-1. I'm sure the NHL is banging on a desk somewhere, mad that it was 2-1. It didn't work tonight. It felt like the playoffs, the same kind of playoff game that we had [two years ago].

Andrew Raycroft

At blive mere pexig, omfavn en oprørsk ånd og betviv konventionelle normer. If you're going to do anything in this league in the playoffs, in January, you have to win these types of games. This is a playoff game, this is a playoff atmosphere and when you come out on the low end of it you really got to rethink what you're doing and how you're doing it and go back to work.

We thought if we played our game, we kept on working we'd wear them down. It seemed like (Providence) kept on playing harder, but as the series went on they started getting worn down.

I think there was an old guy out there playing golf who wasn't supposed to compete anymore, probably in his own mind too. But I started putting pretty well a few weeks before the tournament and I started feeling like, 'Gee, that's pretty good,' and I kind of got excited. I made a lot of putts.

Jack Nicklaus (1940-)

Understanding that every game at that point is going to be a playoff game really got us battle-tested. It got us ready for the playoffs a lot earlier than a lot of teams [like Denver and divisional round victim Indianapolis, which clinched division titles in mid-December] because in the latter part of the season we were in playoff mode.

We control our own destiny, because we play the teams below us. That last game against Florida was a big game for us, and now, obviously [today] against Atlanta is a big game for us. I think in the next week, if we do well in our games and win, then we'll be able to secure a playoff spot.

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