The ice was terrible. The league should start giving out fines, that's how bad the ice is. Guys are going to get hurt. |
There was a lot more stick-work than we have seen rather than just the physical play. It wasn't the shoulder to shoulder like we saw in Philadelphia. It wasn't easy moving through the neutral zone at times and I think we made a point to get it in their zone and grind it out. |
This is huge. If this doesn't say we're in it to win it, I don't know what will. |
This is where we figure out what we've got in this room: How we're going to handle adversity, how we're going to handle losses, how we're going to handle some injuries, everything, |
To be away from the success we've been having as a team and as an organization, I think right now that's the toughest part. I'm just really hoping too have the chance to play with the fellows again this year. |
To see the hit and see him only get a three-game suspension makes it hurt worse. |
We haven't accomplished anything yet, really. But we're right where we want to be. The best part of the season is still coming. |
We picked up the pace in the second and the third periods. We got down two goals but we battled back to tie it. Hopefully, that's a sign of good things to come. |
We'll just have to cut this one off on the plane ride home and be ready to come back and play [Friday]. |
We've had some quality acquisitions. I think, in time, everybody's going to mesh together. |
You certainly can't expect to have any luck with anything but your best effort against probably the best team in the league right now. |
You couldn't say he was trying to break my neck. You could say it was a bad move on his part not to let up, to finish the hit the way he did. Unfortunately, the consequences from the league really are not that bad. Three games for him are like a holiday, three games without going out there and getting his lunch handed to him by the other teams in the league. Sounds like a pretty good tradeoff to me. |