This is what you play for. |
This is what you saw two years ago [in the 2003-04 Stanley Cup championship season]. We kept finding ways to win. That's what we did tonight. We just found a way. |
This is where the tournament starts. |
This was not a step backward. If we play like that every night, we're going to win 80 percent of our games. |
This wasn't pretty but it was a big win. |
Those two games we have to grab a hold of it. It's not the end of the world yet. We just have to make sure we nip it right away. |
To see him go out there and be physical like that, being a little guy, that gets everybody up. |
To win, we need to score. |
We (went) just a little bit back to where we were before this run. We started the game pretty good, but as the game went on, we were just waiting and hoping. We got off what (we do well). Don't know why. But that's what happens: a 2-1 loss. |
We all know what to do. We've all been together long enough to know what to do and what makes the power play work. We're just not doing it. It's the obvious thing and I'm sick of it. We're all sick of hearing it. |
We can control our own destiny, especially playing Atlanta twice more and Florida three more times, those teams are the closest to us outside a playoff spot. |
We didn't deserve better. You can't sit there and say that we should have won this game. We were waiting. We started the game pretty good, but as the game went on, we just kept waiting. I don't know why. |
We didn't have to read it in the paper [to know the significance]. This is a team that can catch us. This was very important tonight, especially when we have two more against them. |
We found a way ... that's what we've been doing. We've found ways to win, and this is the time of year you have to do it. |
We had a chance to go up 2-0 or even 3-0 with some power plays and we couldn't do it -- that really hurt us. |