We'd like to have started better than we did, as far as the final result. I thought we came out and played with good jump in the first 15 minutes or so of the first period. ... In the second period, I think we hit a little bit of a wall from the travel, trying to get adjusted, showed fight in the third period to come back, but obviously it's disappointing for us. ... It was a game we needed to be successful in, and we weren't. |
We'll have to be much better on Thursday if we expect to beat Canada. |
We'll keep working on the things we need to work on -- specialty teams, the penalty kill, the power play, keep working on the system. But we need to take a day to get a break here. |
We're a skating team that needs to utilize that speed, and we didn't use it to our advantage in the first 40 minutes. |
We're not here to lose in overtime, we're here to win hockey games. |
We're not here to lose in overtime, we're here to win hockey games. They had a little more bite for the puck than we did. That's a big team. They've got some big players. |
We're not there yet. There's still a lot of work and this is not going to be an easy task going up to Montreal. To be honest, we're going to have to play better than we did tonight. |
We're so beat up right now, an Olympic break for a lot of our guys to heal up some injuries is not the worst thing in the world. |
We're trying to do something that hasn't been done in 26 years, ... We need to dream about that at night. |
We're trying to hold on to that zero as long as we can. We've got to fight for that. |
We've focused in on the last four or five weeks because you want someone playing well in that position, you want a goaltender that's hot. A week or 10 days ago, he had some of the best numbers in the NHL. |
We've got to win them all. We have got a chance to really take advantage of the schedule here. |
We've had a lot of success here at home and it's been great. There were a lot of people in the building tonight and we need to continue to win and entertain at home and keep building what we have. |
We've obviously played very well at home all season. But it's good to get out on the road a little bit. |
What has been the cornerstone of our our team has been our work ethic and our tenacity. Our jump was not there. If you lose the edge, you lose the game. |