Obviously, our goalies are playing tremendous for us. They're a huge part of keeping us in the game. Our game, we've stepped it up a notch. We've been talking a lot about what to do and everybody knows what to do and when everybody sticks to the system, it's fun to play. |
Playing this game, that's the fun part. |
That was the gold right there. |
There's been so much talk about the old guys of Swedish hockey. I'm glad to see Mats with that big smile on his face. He hasn't had many opportunities to celebrate like this. |
We can't start looking around trying to find ... blame it on ... I don't know what. We're not scoring any goals. There's a big zero up there [Monday], and we're not going to win any hockey games if that continues. |
We haven't had that strut. |
We lose the game with that play. |
We're not down on ourselves by the way we played. We weren't playing bad, we just weren't playing good enough. It's a fine line. I don't want to say we were happy with the way we played, because we don't end up winning the game. But there are parts of that game we can take with us and keep building on. And it's a series. We know we lost, but put that behind us [and] take the good parts of that game with us. |
We're not trying to do anything fancy. We're just chipping away. |
We've known it was coming, and we've prepared for that. You accept that. But obviously, you'd rather go into a break with wins instead of losses. So getting a win like we did tonight was really big. |
When we are on and when we're playing well, everybody feels that confidence. But at times we have had problems staying with it. But we do have stretches when we pay attention to the details and play well and we have that confidence. |