(Chris) Chelios got a couple penalties in the second period, but there's no question that they willed the influence over the officials. Part of that is the inexperience. I'm not saying we didn't deserve a number of those penalties, but there were a number that I thought were poor calls. |
(The loss is) hard to slough off. It's going to linger for a while. Given any other circumstances, this would be a game we could quickly get over and start focusing on San Jose Friday. It was one of those games where we deserved better. |
A coach has got to be right occasionally. |
A couple of wild bounces around the net for their third and their fourth and we walk out of here with a point. But it looked early like it was going to be a slam-dunk two points. |
A division title is still within our grasp. We might have to win seven of eight to get it, but it's still there. |
A punch like that goes around the league in a hurry. But we have talked at length to him in the past about being a physical factor without just squaring off against the other team's tough guy and getting into a situation where teams are reacting to what he's doing on the ice in terms of who he's hitting and how hard he's hitting, and that's the role we've seen so far. |
Against a team like Detroit, they'll make you pay when you give up those high-quality scoring chances. |
All of a sudden you've proven it. |
All of the areas of the game that looked weak for us before were strong. Our goaltender was great. The power play was good. The penalty killing was sharp. It was a reversal of fortune for us. |
Anytime you score five goals, I don't care where you're playing, it should be enough to win a game by two or three. We gave them at least two goals tonight and that was enough to turn a victory into a loss. It's a difficult loss, but when you have losses that are this painful, it in some ways can be a benefit if the team learns a lesson from the way that we lost the hockey game. |
Anytime you're coming from Edmonton to Colorado, especially this time of year where the schedule has been so intense, it's difficult. We were just tired. |
As I've said before, one thing that's remained constant almost from the first game of the regular season until now is that if we get goaltending and we square off, at least, in that position, we win hockey games. |
As the course of the playoffs roll on, I really believe we're a better team leaving here than we were when we arrived, and that's what you need to be successful. |
At least we got some physical penalties. We've been taking a lot of penalties, but at least there were some aggressive ones. Special teams have been winning us games, but their penalty kill did a very good job against our power play. |
At least we were trying in the third, which is more than I can say for the first two periods. At least we started trying. It was a pretty pathetic effort by our group. |