But that pass and that goal at the end of the third period... the goal was great, the pass was unbelievable. |
But the game is still played on the ice. Having been in the same shoes as Tampa once before (winning a Cup in Dallas in 1999), you don't want to disrespect somebody who has won a championship. And they earned it and deserved it. They're the ones with the knowledge right now. We're all searching for that. |
Can I give you that on Friday? |
Chasing the game takes so much energy out of you. |
Could I give you that on Friday night? We have to win our home games and take care of business there. |
Eric calms things down big-time back there. |
Even as disappointed and devastated as I was at the outcome, saying those things was wrong. There is no excuse. |
Even as hard as we play, we're doing things to ourselves that end up being very frustrating. We make mistakes, and at the end of the day it winds up zapping our energy. |
Even when things get a little hairy like they did in the second period, we gathered ourselves and did a great job. |
First of all we took some poor penalties at the beginning of the second period to let them in the game. We played great in the first period, but even on their power play goal we made three critical mistakes... There are two things that really concern me right now. Against the good teams we lose the special teams game and when you can't kill a penalty, that's a big concern. |
For a game when you know you?re going to get checked this hard, we had too many people below the bar. Way too many people. |
For us right now, getting home-ice advantage in the playoffs is absolutely critical. We want to get as high up the ladder as we can because of how competitive it is right now. Every home game we get as an advantage is important. |
For whatever reason for three years, we've had this type of schedule where we've played this [Florida] swing before. It's given us a real opportunity to do some team-building things. It's been a good thing. |
For whatever reason we waded into the series. We almost got away with one in Game 1, but we're locked in now. Hopefully, we can make it really interesting, but emotionally we're locked in. |
For whatever reason, this team just seems to wade into things. We waded into this series. We almost got away with one in Game 1. We didn't get away with it in Game 2. We're locked in now. |