We try to make use of as many of the quotes we collect during the course of the season as we can, since you know, content, but also because they help us all get to know the players better and provide some context for the stories that develop.
But not everything we collect over the course of the 162-game schedule makes it into a story, hard as that is to believe with our attempts to get everything we can out there in multiple stories every day.
There are plenty of quotes and notes that end up in a draft of a story lined up there just gathering digital dust, so with the season behind us and the postseason just heating up, while we try to catch up on sleep this week, we spent a few minutes combing through a couple of the unused quotes from the season, some of which, in hindsight, seem to tell stories about what happened that led to the disappointment that was 2018 in D.