The power play needs to score when we get the opportunity, especially on the 5-on-3. You've got to capitalize against a team like that. They're solid throughout their lineup, and when you get chances like that, you've got to make good. |
The story of our season really against these guys has been our inability to stay out of the penalty box. It's tough to play against a team like that. |
The teams we needed to lose, lost. It's unfortunate we have to approach it like that, but that's the way it is. |
Their power play cashed in and our PK didn't make the stops and it was the opposite on the other end. It was a special-teams battle and we just didn't have the effort we needed. |
They were just a more desperate hockey team. We knew they were desperate coming in. They wanted the points more than we did. |
They were pretty excited to be back. It's a good measuring stick for us. We realize we've got a lot of work to do. |
Things have changed fast, but that's what we've been striving for. We just have to keep pushing ahead. |
Until we all learn to play with each other, we just have to get better each night and the offense will come. This was a big character builder for the team. I know it's early in the season, but we've got to start somewhere with this group of guys, and when we can win games like that against a good team like Tampa Bay, it's a big building block for us. |
We deserve the win obviously, we played with a lot of desperation early on. Maybe they were a little flat or whatever but we just needed to focus on what we needed to do and in reality we need the points more than they do so it was a good effort to keep our focus. |
We don't do a good job when we have a team down. We have to step on the gas and close them out. |
We gave them every opportunity with the penalties we took. We can't do that. |
We had lots of shots on the net. Anytime we had a chance we put the puck to the net. The hockey gods were on our side tonight. |
We had opportunities on the 5-on-3 to really go up two. I think that would have made the difference. When you let them hang around on their own ice and they get opportune goals like they did, you never know what can happen in overtime. |
We had some opportunities, 5-on-3, that we couldn't capitalize [on] and they made good on theirs. It's frustrating because we had a really good opportunity tonight. |
We have no choice but to do what we're doing. We're coming through. |