[Assistant coach] Guy Carbonneau has really come in and changed the philosophy of our penalty killing. Obviously the biggest thing is that when they're [team is] getting shots, [Huet] is stopping them. |
[Cristobal] shut the door after that. It was a bit of a lucky goal, but we didn't give up and we kept going at them with everything we had. We played a pretty solid game. |
Because we were down we're going to take some chances and push the play a bit. We battled back hard. We were in the game, we fought hard but fell a little bit short. |
Huet made a couple of key saves in the first, we got the momentum and kept it. |
I can't tell you how much that meant to us. |
I don't know if we thought things were going to be easy the rest of the way, that teams were going to lay down for us. The guys that were lineup haven't held up their end of the deal. To a man, we can all play better. |
I don't think there's another goalie in the league playing as well as him. If he had played the whole season, he'd be the Vezina Trophy winner. |
I don't think worried is the right word, we still control things. We'll worry when the buzzer sounds and we're not in the playoffs. |
I think believing is the first thing because momentum is a funny thing some times. You get momentum and luck and things start happening and you just get that feeling. |
I think it caught the end of my stick. I wanted to challenge him, but it was just a bad break. |
I was skating back and yelling at him to freeze the puck. I was assuming that he was going to but he had a different idea. That's why communication is important. |
I'm sure there are guys who take Sudafed, but it's probably no different than having three or four cups of coffee. If guys are on drugs because they're taking a pot of coffee a day, then there's going to be a lot of us. |
It gave us a little bit more of a lead and let us kind of relax a little bit and keep pushing. |
It was just a few words of encouragement. Obviously, with a player as important as him, and as well liked and respected in this room as him, just to know that he's feeling a little bit more upbeat gives a lift to the team. It was just nice that his spirits were a little higher than they were yesterday. |
It was over halfway through the first period. They came out and totally exposed us and embarrassed us. |