Evan has played very well against them. That's one thing that stands out in my mind. We've had great work ethic and great goaltending. If you want to have a good penalty kill, your goalie's got to be your best guy on the ice. Our goaltenders have really stepped up. |
Evan was very sharp. Come the third period, we were able to step up and score a few goals. |
Even when I played, I've never seen a comeback in the playoffs like that. Scoring three goals at the end of regulation and the one to tie it up, it showed our character. |
Everyone knows what's at stake. We have to come out and keep playing. Nobody needs to do anything more or anything less than they've been doing. |
For us, of all the moves made I think we got the best player that's been moved. For us now, we have to get healthy and we have to get going again. |
He's symbolic of what our team stands for. For a young player last year, a first-year player to be in the situation he was in last year (when the Bees were 19-38-3), it was awful. It wasn't fun to play hockey. It wasn't fun for anybody to go to the rink last year. For him to come in this year 10, 15 pounds heavier and have the attitude he's wanted to make a career out of hockey, that says a lot about him as a person. |
I just think we did little things right. As a result, we were able to score some goals. |
I think every point right now is important. We want two, but one is definitely better than nothing. So we'll take it. |
I think they held up pretty well. We had a lot of skating, a lot of skill work. I think they did pretty good. |
It was a pretty emotional two days around here. It was the first (playoff) game at home here for some of the guys. We needed a game like that that was hard fought. Now guys can settle in here and see what it takes to win, and realize you have to go here. Every shift of every game is huge. |
It wasn't an easy year. Nothing was easy for this team. You look back from the All-Star Game to the last game of the year, and they could have shut (it) down, but they didn't. |
It's just the next step for us. This was our goal and we made it. Now we have our sights set on the first round. |
It's not the time to be too cocky, and it's not the time to think anything is the end of the world. I definitely think they're a lot more confident than they were a week ago. |
Not playing at home for almost a month, this is something we can carry into the next seven games. Our biggest focus here the next little while is to leave everything on the ice because we don't have any three (games) in three (nights). We are traveling and out of town, but at the same time, we are traveling. Guys should be leaving everything every shift on the ice. |
On the bench it looked like the net moved. But you can't really see from the bench. |