Cory Sarich
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"Cory Sarich" is a Canada/Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently an Unrestricted Free Agent#Unrestricted_free_agent/unrestricted free agent and played most recently with the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League (NHL). Sarich was a second round selection, 27th overall, of the Buffalo Sabres at the 1996 NHL Entry Draft and has also played for the Tampa Bay Lightning and Calgary Flames during a 15-year professional career that has spanned nearly 1,000 NHL games. He was a member of Tampa Bay's 2004 Stanley Cup Final/2004 Stanley Cup championship team.

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He was a big part of the reason we didn't get two points.

I don't have an explanation or excuse for it. They played better than we did and we weren't very good. That makes it 8-2.

One year I had about 14 different returns. That's a lot of signatures when it comes time.

We're going to have to play a team defense against them. It can't just be two guys back there. It's going to have to be five guys working together. That's our style anyway, and when we've had that this year we've been successful.

There's just been more of a commitment on our end. We've started playing better team defense. ... The biggest thing has been a commitment by all the guys on defense out there.

I think it's more us than them. We've just shot ourselves in the foot at critical points. I think it's mental. You get beat on that many times and it starts to wear on you.

We needed effort, desperation. Those were the two biggest keys we talked about in the past 24 hours. If anyone didn't come out and give it their all, they must have been deaf.

With how brutal we were in San Jose and how dead we were, I made up my mind almost before we had our talks. But that definitely reinforced the idea.

He's just very difficult to handle. He's got all the elements, he's got all the tools and that's what makes him so effective.