It's frustrating. Any time you lose, you're looking for answers and you want to be better and you're not happy but it's the National Hockey League and when you're not playing up to your ability, you're not going to win a lot of hockey games and tonight was one of those nights. |
It's hard to play seven against five for the whole game, |
It's healthy for the league, having these young, exciting players coming in. As long as you are the winning side, like we are tonight, I don't mind him scoring a couple of goals. |
It's not his fault. We can turn this thing around, there's no doubt about it. I believe in this team. We're facing adversity, but every team does that. |
It's tough, things aren't going our way. In important parts of the game we're giving up goals. We're not getting them where we should be. You can tell the whole group is tentative. We're making small mistakes out there. When things aren't going your way, every time we make a mistake we're paying the price. |
Milestones you look back on later in your career, |
My vision is definitely better, I feel we're going in the right direction, but we'll find out more [today]. |
Not as long as I have Gary (Roberts) standing next to me. |
Our (penalty kill) came through at the end. It looked like Pittsburgh had enough chances to get the game-winner with a few minutes left. It was a tough game. We battled hard. It was a good two points for us. |
Our only focus from now on is to turn this thing around. We have to get back to playing the way we did. The way we're playing right now, it hasn't even been two weeks. Before that we were playing really good hockey and we could beat any team in the league. We have to climb back to that, and it's going to take all of us in the dressing room. We can't look at the standings right now. |
Overall I didn't think our line had the best game, |
Some nights the game is easy and many nights you wonder what's going on. |
Sometimes things just go right. It was just one of those nights. We kept coming back and didn't give up. We're still alive. |
That shot is going into the history books and it's fitting he scored it because he's probably been our best player through the whole tournament. |
That's exactly what you try to do on the power play - put the puck on the net. |