We've had six (penalties) both nights, which I think is very good under the new terms. You look around the league there's been 12, 14. Teams are taking that many penalties, and we don't want to be in that category. |
We've shown a ton of grit, a ton of character. We didn't have a lot of quality chances, but we got in control play. We sent a message that we were going to come, we were going to be relentless. |
We've warned our guys. He's a guy that you can burn, but he can hurt you if you don't have your wits about you when he's on the ice because he's going to come running, and if you're not ready for it . . . I've seen some tremendous hits out of him this year. |
We've won three of our last five now. They've kind of turned the corner. Our play, our tempo, our offensive zone play is back. |
Well, it's a tough goal. But we've been able to battle through those types of goals. I thought we just kept coming. We battled back... |
When challenged, he was flopping around like a half-dead fish. |
When we put him in contact situation and we ran him through some drills in Tampa Bay, he didn't do so well. The strength isn't there yet. We're not going to put him in until he's in a situation where he doesn't feel like he's handicapped. |
When you see a guy hit his head that hard, you're worried about one thing: a concussion. But he had nothing along that line. |
When you take what was your best player out of the lineup for a long time, you start to wonder how it's going to work when he comes back. I think we've seen a good indication what it's done for our team, offensively ... He's small in stature, but big when it comes to the role he plays on the team. |
When you're going after somebody's head, you've got intent to hurt. Don't tell me the knee is accidental after that. He knew exactly what he was doing, and should pay a price for it. |
With the new rules he's going to score. Still, I'll take some of the grind and some of the front-of-the-net play that we have in our guys, and I think it's just made us a deeper, stronger team in that sense. |
With the style they play and the goaltender they got it's a very low-chance affair. The mistakes teams make they capitalize, and we gave them the lead right off the start. That let them play their style, and we didn't force them out of it. |
You believe you can make it every year. You don't think it's going to end. But the reality is that most teams, you end up in, you end up out. |
You can't get much hotter. We work hard, we don't quit and we're winning games in a lot of different ways. |
You don't want to create undue pressure, but the pressure's coming from the guys that are playing around him, ... I don't think if you were sitting there staring at the stats you would feel comfortable. |