He's going to be targeted just with who he is. You have to earn the respect of your peers around the league when you're that young. He's awfully mature for his age, but at the same time, he's 18. He's done a great job with it, but I think anyone in his position at that age would get frustrated at times. He's only going to learn from it.
Brooks Orpik
We'll see if I say the same thing Wednesday after the game. But I like it when we have back-to-back games.
game games thing
The way we're going right now, we'll be lucky to have that record we did two years ago. I don't see any signs of a turnaround yet, unfortunately.
lucky signs
Nobody was comfortable; everybody realized the opportunity they had. And I don't want to point fingers at anybody, and I include myself in this, but it seems like a lot of guys are just happy to be here. Guys don't seem to realize the opportunity we have, but they need to realize that on a lot of other teams, we wouldn't be getting this opportunity.
opportunity happy guys teams realize comfortable
I don't know; we had a lot of guys two years ago who showed up every night, and you knew exactly what you were going to get. But I don't know; we seemed like we played with a lot more emotion then.
night emotion guys
The whole thing was an accident. It's unfortunate.
accident thing
People are going to form their opinions. The only thing I can do is stress that it wasn't intentional, wasn't premeditated and I hope he gets back soon.
people stress opinions form hope thing
I don't agree with it, but I understand where they're coming from.
understand
Anytime there's a serious injury, they have to act on it, but the three games -- I was surprised about that based on how the conference call went.
games act call injury
It's good to see guys sticking up for one another. Everyone gets along in this room, and if you see one of our guys take a cheap shot, we will go after him.
good guys cheap shot
age time respect learn times young job great
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