It was a great opportunity for us. We knew what this one meant. If we won it would effectively be a five team race. |
It was a wild, wild game. |
It was an incredible goal. A great, absolutely breathtaking goal. A huge goal. I think we'll realize the importance of that goal as the season wears on. |
It was clear from the outset that we weren't crisp. Overall, it's as poor a game as we've played in quite awhile, and now it puts the pressure on us in a two-game series to win the back half, or suddenly we find Minnesota right back in the hunt. |
It was not a game you're going to put a frame around. But it's nice to come out of it with two points. |
It was very disappointing for everybody that the game went that way and it was steered that way from the outset by the officials. It was an egregious error to put the game in the officials' hands. |
It will be a work in progress. We like to think, as everybody would at this stage, that we're progressing and we have our teams prepared. But there will be things that crop up. Every coach is saying we don't want to struggle with the learning curve early on. But some will. |
It's a big part of the game. If you get dominated up the middle, you don't have much chance to win, and that includes face-offs. They don't get a lot of attention by people outside the game, but people inside the game, coaches, know how important they are. To start with the puck is a huge advantage in any situation. |
It's a big win. I can't argue that. |
It's a different standard with those two. It seems like you get credited for having the courage to call everything. |
It's a huge cop-out to talk about a goalie when you only score two goals. Playing goal for our team, the way we're putting the puck in the net lately, is very difficult. |
It's a one-in-a-million play. I have never seen it. In 25 years of hockey I have never seen anything like it. |
It's a smart style of hockey against a very explosive team. We won't call it a trap. |
It's another example of how you have to lock down every last detail, or you don't win. We played a very good third period, only allowed them four shots on goal and they scored on two of them because they were quality chances that came as a direct result of our mistakes. |
It's another example that you have to take care of every aspect of our game. Otherwise it ends up being a loss. |