You don't want to start out next weekend trying to find your hockey game. |
You don't want to take a penalty in the last three or four minutes of the game. |
You give skilled players that many power plays and eventually you are going to get some people tired and that is what happened. We made a couple of tired decisions at the end. |
You just have to keep going and our players are starting to learn that. |
You know that if you just stay with the program, the home team is going to be the one that presses. We've caught people pressing hard when the game is on the line, and we've caught them on some odd-man rush situations. And we've won a lot of points late. |
You play the game. |
You talk about character, |
You think you're snake bit and there's a lot of doubt in your game and, when you don't score for an extended period of time, doubt creeps in. Then you get the one off their skate and it kind of sets the wheel in motion and now everybody thinks they can score. |
You throw all of that out the window. The fans know this isn't the regular season, our fans especially. I've seen our fans just will us in a playoff series. It's really difficult when you're constantly having to win on the road. Having a Game 7 in your building, to me, there is no better feeling in the world. |
You were taught at an early age that you don't just fall down as soon as someone puts a stick on you, |
You've got two countrymen going at it and neither guy really blinked until we got into (overtime) at the end there. This was very much like a playoff game. |