SORRY IF THE BUMP GIVES ANYONE A HEART ATTACK!
There was a new short
interview with Gudas at
sport.cz, in just a few answers he claimed he is sad hockey is not as hard as it used to be
Rough translation below
Q: On Saturady you have made an important step towards the play offs when defeating the Bruins. Do you feel like being in already?
V sobotu jste udělali hodně důležitý krok k postupu výhrou nad Bostonem. Cítíte, že už to máte v kapse?
A: Officialy we are not celebrating anything yet -
but we have known that if we defeat the Bruins, advancing to the play offs is very likely. It's not 100% certainty yet but Florida would need to win all of their five games and we would have lose everything we could.
I think boys subconciously know the win meant play offs for us. Maybe there will be a little bit of time to celebrate but now we have to focus on the Islanders with whom we play on Tuesday.
Oficiálně ještě neslavíme, ale věděli jsme, že když porazíme Bruins, tak už to play off snad máme. Není to stoprocentní, ale Florida by musela vyhrát pět zápasů a my všechno prohrát. Myslím si, že naši kluci podvědomě vědí, že ta výhra pro nás znamená play off. Na nějakou oslavu snad vyjde chvilka, teď ale ne, v úterý hrajeme s Islanders.
Q: Did you pay a lot of attenion to Florida who is the only team to watch out for right now?
Sledovali jste hodně, jak si vede Florida, která vás jako jediná ještě může ohrozit?
A: More than anything we have focused on ourselves. Only relying on others could be dangerous because we might not get into shape then - and we would get kicked out of the play offs real fast. That's why the coach kept telling us to focus on our own performace. Honestly, guys did watch the Jersey trip on the West coast anyway. The end of the regular season is very difficult for Florida, 2 more games with Boston coming up, which must be hard on them. On the other hand,
we have known our schedule is favorable.
Spíš jsme se soustředili na sebe. Kdybychom to nechávali na ostatních, tak by se nám to nemuselo vyplatit, protože bychom se nemuseli dostat do stoprocentní formy na play off a pak bychom asi rychle vyletěli. Takže nám trenér vtloukal do hlavy, abychom si dávali pozor na vlastní výkon. Všichni ale stejně koukali, jak se bude dařit New Jersey na západním pobřeží. Florida má hrozně těžký konec sezóny, hraje ještě dvakrát s Bostonem, takže pro ně je to docela záhul. My naopak věděli, že máme docela dobré rozlosování.
Q: You have encoutnered a lot of barriers during the regular season: 10 games losing streak, ong term injuries to both starting goalies. However you are sill in play offs position. Would you say these issues made the team stronger?
Během základní části vás potkávaly jobovky: série 10 porážek, pak dlouhodobá zranění obou gólmanů. Přesto jste na pozicích pro play off. Cítíte, že tyto problémy tým posílily?
A: Definitely. There are a few guys who are unfortunately in the press box right now but whenever they played, we have all seen they are NHL level players. Anyone could see how strong the team got immediately after the losing streak - we pushed harder, after Christmas our results were among the best in the league and in February we almost did not lose. It was great to see how the team started to pull for each other even more afterwards. We have got a lot of young guys here and that helped us. The youngsters saw the right direction we should go and we have benefited from that.
Q: The Flyers have quite a few very young defensemen. Do you feel as a mentor to them?
Ve Flyers máte hodně mladé beky, cítíte, že pro ně fungujete jako mentor?
A: I am feeling old, you are right (laughter). We talked a bit with the head coach about how it well be necessary to help the young guys. It won't be easy for some of them,
first NHL season and play offs already, a lot will be asked from
.