I'm not sure what it is, but we've really struggled in the second period this year. Overall, we played pretty well. We came out and skated hard. But we just can't seem to put together a good second period. And that's something we need to address.
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Related If you take away that first period we played pretty well. Our first period we came out a bit slow, b... JUDY WESTGATE We came out pretty hard, then had a bit of a letdown in the second period. But we battled hard in th... ROB NIEDERMAYER We struggled a little bit in the first half, but we came out in the second by making some stops, ...... CHAMIQUE HOLDSCLAW The first period we played as well as we (had) all year. They took over in the second, but we got it... GARTH SNOW We started off the second period and the Senators looked like they were really moving out. They came... ERIC PELTZER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We had a little lull in the first period but other than that we played pretty good. Our composure wa... MARC HABSCHEID We played hard but not smart in the first period. We did a lot of things right after those goals (in... TONY CURTALE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Rubin and Doherty play really well together and have done some good things this year. They started t... KAREN MCCABE The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN We were all just so devastated after Friday. We came out in the second half and really put it togeth... NICK ALLEN Last year we made the playoffs, but this year thats not enough. We want to at least get to the secon... COLLEEN KENNEDY We talked about putting four quarters together. I don't know if we have all year. We might put toget... CHAD SPENCE If we wouldn't have lost the (last) game before the Olympics, I would have felt better. But I think ... ALEXANDER OVECHKIN They really stepped it up in the second period. We could have laid down and let them keep their come... DEREK DAMON This was a tough year; obviously, this is not what we wanted. We came out and played really well in ... LINDSAY THOMAS They jumped on us in the first period and we came back well in the second to cut it to 3-2. We got s... DAVE LAMARRE We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Josh just told me to calm down and he'd back me up. And that's what they did because right after tha... JUSTIN FAVIER We played a strong first half, but came out flat in the second half. They were big and strong, but o... PAUL ALTHAUS We played an extremely good game overall. Everyone came in and contributed. My hat goes out to the k... BRIAN KOOPMAN I don't know if it was bus legs or whatever, but we didn't move our feet in the first period. In the... LARRY KUPCZYK We started off a little bit slow in the first period. Saskatchewan came out and were physical. We re... ERIC THURSTON We came out and took over in the second period. They looked like a tired team. BRENDAN SHANAHAN It was a real tight game in the first and second period. In the third, I think we came out strong an... HENRIK ZETTERBERG It was the second quarter that killed us. Without that one period, we played a pretty decent game ag... KYLE GORDON I think our power play played really well, especially in the second period when we needed some big g... BRIAN SAVAGE We found our legs, we found our game, in the third period. That's what really matters. We got the ga... MARC DENIS We really came out strong in the second period and that gave us the game. Warren Ross played an amaz... JOEL CORMIER We lost [in the] second period. We play very well in first period but we can't score. First period, ... ALEX OVECHKIN We started out slow but came back and played well in the second and third game. BRUCE UDVARI We came here to win, the first period we played well, but Toronto won the third, ALEXANDER OVECHKIN We played a real smart road game. In the first period we were taking penalties in the offensive zone... DAN FRIDGEN We got that goal at the end of the first period. I thought we had a pretty good energy in the first ... BRUCE MARSHALL We came out and played hard. We didn't want to go home in second place. ANDREA BLODGETT We tied them last year so we wanted to make sure that we came out strong and finished strong. We pla... NOELLE KREYKES I thought we sat back in the second period a little bit. We had a lot of power play chances there, a... ROB DAUM We need more jump and start believing we can do it. They played a great second period and it was ver... CRISTOBAL HUET In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... We may have lost a little bit of focus in the second quarter, but overall I think we played well. We... GARY GRAVERT This is a pretty disappointing loss. We played a bad first half and we came out the second half and ... DEREK WITHERS This was huge. We didn't quit. We didn't sulk. We played great in the second half of the first perio... TOM POTI We just came out kind of tight. We couldn't get in a groove, but we came back in the second half and... LATOYA MILLS We been a second period team all year. DAVID HARACKIEWICZ The third period was obviously everything we had. The first and second were the worst periods we pla... JASON KALIN In the first half we played well but we suffered a goal from a corner. In the second period we chang... RONALD KOEMAN They unloaded in the second half. We played hard, but they just have a lot of really good athletes. DAVE HILLIARD We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately playe... JAVIER AGUIRRE We played pretty even with them in the second half. We didn't throw it away as much in the second. T... BARRY EMERSON We came out and played solid defense. We made a few mental mistakes in the first quarter, but we rea... DAN SACK We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in t... CONNIE ALLEN We just had a letdown in the second period. The first period the crowd wasn't into it. DAVE DEBOL That first period hurt us, especially with that soft goal. But we came back with one in the second, ... PETE BELLIVEAU The first period, we dominated them, and in the second, it was totally the flip side. I thought we l... BO TIERNEY I thought we came out in the second half -- once we kind of settled in -- and played pretty well. We... CHAD ANDERSON The first period and a half, we looked like we never put skates on before. The next period and a hal... MIKE SOSNOWSKI They came to play. They came out and had a killer instinct. They made us stand back and check what w... KRISTI BOESE The first half and second half were totally different halves for our team. I felt like we came out i... CRYSTAL SMITH We let them come out more aggressive in the second period. We weren't playing together. We started t... MARTY TURCO We struggled from the field a bit in the first half, but we came out and worked twice as hard in the... BOB FEASEL I thought the first period was a solid period. The second period, we weren't bad, but they kind of t... ED JOVANOVSKI We had a stretch of about two minutes there in the second period where we came undone. We stayed wit... JIM GENUARDI We came out and played well at the start of the second half. But then, it all fell apart. BRAD KROUSE We hustled hard and played hard. We wanted it bad. We wanted to prove people wrong. We came in as th... ASHLEE STEPHENS That was one of our best-played games of the year. We came out on fire in the second half and took a... GABE LAWSON We looked shaky in the first game. When we were down five in the second match, the girls came togeth... JULIE CLARK I thought we played a really good second half. Clear Brook took control of the game in the first hal... LYNN MCDONALD We started playing in the second period. We started to execute our plan in the second period. When w... MICHEL THERRIEN I thought it was a good game. I thought we played well, and I thought South Burlington has got one o... DAVE LAMARRE We had a little nerves at the beginning and they did, too, because they came out sloppy. We played p... CODY BOONE All three lines scored in that period. We didn't feel we were out of the game (after the second peri... NICK POLLOS I thought we were still okay being down one goal. But, scoring the second goal late in the period re... JEFF WOOD We really hadn't played together until [the Upper St. Clair game]. We just came together, maybe too ... TERRY ADAMS We got what we deserved today. We didn't come ready to play and we put ourselves in a big hole. We p... BRAD SHOVE I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur... LAUREN OLIVER It was a good game. We played hard. I was pleased with the way we played in the second half. We foug... DAVE MACDONALD I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We hit some shots against their zone in the first half and played pretty good defense the whole game... DICK FRANTI We played hard and it was a hard fought effort. We didn't play bad at all, we just had to cut a pret... BRAD FARRELL It's a huge win in that it allows us to see where we are at this time of the year, ... We played a v... JEREMY ROENICK We put goals in the back of the net, which is something we have really needed to do. Overall, we pla... CARRIE ORR I thought we started well, but by the second period we were over-handling the puck and our offensive... GEORGE GWOZDECKY I thought we were a little more determined in the second half. We played well but just didn't put an... CURTIS BLAIR We played really well in the first half. We played hard on defense and moved the ball. When we do th... DAVID HENLEY The kids played hard and did what we asked them to do. We just came up short. We flat out got out-re... ETHAN DSCHAAK We had a terrible start, really came out flat in the first period, but we kept grinding away. Mats' ... BRYAN MCCABE It was a hard-fought game, but we gave them too much cushion and we couldn't really recover. But our... AL HARRINGTON I'm not sure what it was, exactly. We played hard, and I thought some guys played really well. We we... CLAIR COSTELLO Both teams had five or six days off from the end of their series. We had more shots on net, but in t... BRAD WILLIAMSON In the second half, we came out and just played very solid, very unselfish. We did a good job of get... EDDIE TALLEY We just came out flat in the first half. But we played better in the second half. It was a learning ... JULIE MCGRAW We played a great first half. We played together and played great defense, but defensively we just c... CARMEN DOLFO We try to put them away in the first period, we try have the game won at halftime. We didn't have th... HOMER DAVIS We came out sluggish but then made a little run at the end of the first half that got us some confid... MARK WINTER Out of the gate, we just weren't playing very well. But once we outscored them in the second quarter... FARRIS LOWERY We played some of the best defense we've played all year in the second half. (North Medford) really ... BOB FEASEL We really got going in the second half of the second period and in the third period, ... We got good... MARTIN BIRON We just tried to play solid man-to-man defense. Early in the game we weren't rotating the way we nee... DENNIS BROOKS We got off to a tough start again. We continue to shoot ourselves in the foot and have to claw our w... CHRIS PRONGER
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I tried to find one within ... LARRY MACPHAIL The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent. LARRY MACPHAIL I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted th... LARRY KRAMER I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there.... LARRY KRAMER Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, bu... LARRY KRAMER We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; t... LARRY KRAMER I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened ... LARRY KRAMER Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists. LARRY KRAMER I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay... LARRY KRAMER AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could ha... LARRY KRAMER Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a ... LARRY KRAMER By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am. LARRY KRAMER Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to reall... LARRY KRAMER The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as i... LARRY KRAMER Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let&... LARRY KRAMER There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But h... LARRY KRAMER I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fi... LARRY KRAMER Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death thr... LARRY KRAMER I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use t... LARRY KRAMER We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried... LARRY KRAMER Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mea... LARRY KRAMER The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denia... LARRY KRAMER Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier ... LARRY KRAMER I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could ... LARRY KRAMER AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - ... LARRY KRAMER I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first... LARRY KRAMER