Lombardi: Lemaire honed Gaborik's defensive acumen
/"He’s as smart defensively as he is offensively, and he had been trained that way."
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"He’s as smart defensively as he is offensively, and he had been trained that way."
Read More"Cap space is not malleable -- once you use it, it's gone."
Read More"All year, he's looked like a different player. We've always known that the potential was there for him."
Read More“Show me a team in the NHL that doesn’t play a trap and I’ll call you a liar because every single team does it.”
Read More"The key thing is we have to look at our young players and where they’re all going to fit."
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Read More"Speed. And I'll use the word mojo right now; he's got a little bit of that going, especially at home."
Read More"There were certain guys you had to be on for 60 minutes."
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Read More"This is Granlund's business card for the world to show that he is hungry and can't wait to get out there."
Read More“I know when I come head-to-head with somebody and he tries to go wide on me, I don’t stick out my knee."
Read More"But with the media getting involved and especially social media, they make him out to be a serial killer."
Read More"When he's playing well he's got a cockiness to him. Hopefully we see a lot of that from now on."
Read More"He seems like he’s just doing it effortless. That might be farm boy strong from him working on the farm all summer in Wisconsin, which I know he does.”
Read More"This gives Bryz a chance to show everybody again that he can be a No. 1 goalie.”
Read More"To me, this was part of the experience of growing as a coach that I hadn’t gone through yet that I knew I had to go through.”
Read More"Quite frankly, with a player getting hurt like that, they're just disgusting."
Read More"A lot of teams really stuck to that, especially the Wild, who stayed off me until my season was over."
Read More"This year there's a completely different feel in the room and a guy like Ilya has really helped."
Read MoreFans at MTS Centre certainly enjoy it when Ilya Bryzgalov comes to town.
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