We're not down. We're still loose. We look at it as an opportunity to even the series. |
We're not scared of them. |
We're on a roll here right now and we didn't want to end that. To come back from 2-0, it's huge. It's so much more confidence for the guys. We're happy and proud of ourselves. |
We're still a bit loose. It's a great opportunity to even the series and turn it into a best-of-three. That's all we want to do now. |
We've been playing better hockey of late at home. It's been a lot better than it was at the start of the year. We've been more consistent. We still haven't played a lot of full 60 minutes yet, but we're going to keep working on that. |
We've done this before where we've played a couple (good) games and gone into a lull again. (But) I think we're slowly getting a little bit more arrogance, a little more confidence. We still have a long ways to go ... but it's something we haven't had in a long time. |
We've done this before. We have to guard against win two, lose two, win two, lose one. That's where we are at right now. |
We've got to come to work and try to figure out how to take control of a game with our power play. Until we do that it's going to be a dogfight every night. |
We've had a tough time playing a full 60 minutes against them. There's been a couple of times where they played some pretty good games. They're not a bad team at all. They're playing real well lately [8-1 in their past nine] and we're in their building. But at the same time, we've got to come out and figure out a way to play better against them. |
We've never been the eighth seed, obviously. It's going to be different. We're not going to worry about what happened two years ago. We're just going to worry about our team now. |
We've talked, not numbers, today a little bit. But I haven't sat down yet with Pat [Morris] to go over all that. But just so that we are ready to start talking when both sides feel that it's necessary. I'll meet with Pat here soon. I want to be here, I'd love a long-term deal but that's the only thing that I've really thought about. I love this organization and this would be ideal. |
When you are in, you are in, it doesn't matter. It took a little while longer than expected, but we are in. |
When you score two goals one game and one goal the next and you get four points, that's great because we weren't getting (points) when we were scoring three and four. It's huge and this is going to get everybody's confidence going. We need to pull out games like this and then atmosphere is a little bit better in the workplace, you know? |
When you've had a good team for that many years, the pressure will mount. There's only so many teams that can win, so it's not like they're bad players. But they're like everyone else - they want to win this thing. |
Whether you lose in double overtime or it's 8-4, it's all the same. Look what happened to Detroit; they had the same result we did. So it's back to work and move on from this. |