If we're smart, we can take two out of three this weekend and put a little more pressure on Florida and Greenville. |
It's a great rivalry, a clean rivalry. |
It's going to be a great series. Both teams excelled during the regular season. Now, it's time to find out which wants it the most. |
It's what this organization has been looking forward to. They're the measuring stick of this league. They've been one of the top three teams in the league since, really, their inception. |
Jeff and Jon have had to step up their game. Each has taken it upon themselves to maintain the excellent level of play that we have been enjoying so far. |
Now it's time to get back to business. Hopefully, we'll play [tonight] the same way we did Saturday. Our players know what they have to do. Nobody is looking ahead. This is a playoff series where you take it one game at a time. |
Our depth has been big. This team won with a lot of the guys out of the lineup. We won when we were short-handed and we never hit a bump in the road. |
The last three minutes of the second saved our bacon. Had we not gotten those, we would have had no hope going into the third. |
They've all been really great here. Atlanta, I can't even tell you what a great organization they are. |
To me it means absolutely nothing. It was one game and that's all it was. I told the boys, it's 0-0, we come out on Friday like it's Game 1 again. |
We played great the first period and terrible the second. |
We've got 10 forwards and four defenders, so we'll be all right. The guys have to be smart. The goaltenders have to step up, and my job is to motivate the guys we have. |
We've got to be sharper, we've got to be better. |
We've reached heights that people in this town have never seen. |
Whether we won or lost, it's only Game 1. We know we have to play better if want to win Game 2. It's not the time to either panic or be satisfied. |