Certainly coming in here I thought we had focused pretty well. Then right off the bat we get behind and it was a little bit of an uphill struggle well into the second period. |
Do you want to lose 5-1 or 3-2 in a tough game? |
Do you want to lose 5-1 or 3-2 in a tough game? Either way, it's a loss, ... We put them on their heels real quick, but they stormed back. |
Do you want to win the game? |
Dom has not told me he's bringing anyone in. |
Doug has a strong owner that allows him to stay on path. When you're always worried about your job, sometimes you do things to save your job that aren't smart things. |
Eaves gets a cut (above) his eye and there's no call on the play. The official told one of our players it was a clean hit. That seems kind of strange. |
Either way, it's a loss. We put them on their heels real quick, but they stormed back. |
Everybody shrinks the box. The [defensive] triangle is so tight now that everybody is blocking shots off the perimeter shots. And if you have a good goaltender, he just becomes that extra guy. And the guys are impatient trying to score, and they try to blast it through the goaltender. It seems to be anyway that the down low play doesn't work any more. |
Everything caught up to us tonight. We were behind them all night. |
Everything caught up with us tonight. Nobody was going to rally the troops tonight. We're giving up more goals and chances than we did all year. It's disappointing because our stats were so good. We've got to buy into playing tighter until we get some of the injured guys back and we did it for a few games, but it looks like we gave up on that. We've been playing from behind and that's difficult to do. |
Experience doesn't mean very much the way he played tonight. |
Experience doesn't mean very much. The way he played tonight, he was outstanding in the first period. He was real solid all game long, very poised. |
Finishing in first place in the Eastern Conference is important. |
Fish is such a hard worker and good skater. I think it's a good speed line. Fisher's a guy that can get back and play in his own end but he can also get up the ice and join a rush. Marty is so creative and so quick to the outside that if he has a man drive to the middle, he should find him once in a while for a scoring chance. |