December 19 practice quotes: Justin Williams

On whether his fight with Kevin Shattenkirk was representative of the team’s added emotional drive:
Well, they’re a team that wants something that we have. You play a team twice in three days and lose the way we lost the first game, it motivates you to beat them. I’ve said for years, this team hates when teams get the better of them. If we get a chance to redeem ourselves the next day, then we’re going to show up.

On whether there was a different approach to yesterday’s game:
I’m not really sure. What were you saying? ‘Everyone says every game is the same approach.’ I assume you approach every game as you’re going to win, but certain games have more snarl and more anger and more meaning behind them. They all mean two points, but the underlying topics of the game… sometimes they mean a lot more.

On how the effectiveness of the offense changes when Marian Gaborik is scoring:
Well he’s a lot more effective. I don’t know. There is not much more that needs to be said about him. He’s a world class guy. He scores a lot of goals and when he’s on his game, he makes a lot of plays. One thing people don’t know about Gabby, they just figure he scores a lot of goals from the high slot, but he scores a lot of his goals in the dirty areas. He scores a lot of goals going to the net, poking at rebounds. And I think that’s a misconception about him sometimes from the outside world, that he’s just a perimeter player. He’s not.

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