I think the Washington game was the game. We had lost six in a row and we just wanted to get our confidence back, to know we can win again. |
I think this is what we get paid for. Thank God we've been playing well lately and hopefully we'll win a couple more games. |
I thought we could have a shot. You're always wondering. You don't know what's going to happen. |
I tried to pass to him, and then they boo me when I score a goal. I told him, 'Keep the goal. I don't want to hear the booing. |
I'm very happy for him. He works very hard and practice and is a great, great guy. |
If he has something important to say, he says it in the locker room, in front of the guys and the coaches. Now he's been in the league many, many years. He's learned from the best: Mario, Ron Francis, Mark Messier. |
If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year. |
It is huge (win). Teams like this you have to beat. We still have six games to go and we just want to win the division. It was a big step tonight. |
It was just good luck on the first puck of the game, and we never came back from that. I guess we ran out of gas. We were very tired with so many games, but everybody is in the same boat. |
It was tough, especially the 5-on-3. You've got to score in playoff games. We kept talking about plugging away. |
It's tough playing all those games in the NHL and then here. It was easier in Nagano and Salt Lake (only three preliminary-round games). Maybe that's something everybody should think about for next time, give us a couple of more days off. |
That was just a complete hockey game. All four lines played well. Plus, we had a good start and that's so important. |
That's what we said before the game, especially on the power play - we were going to battle for all the pucks and get all the rebounds. That was the difference. That's always the difference. |
The quarter-finals is going to be the key game for us. |
They're doing the same thing in the Czech Republic now. It's not as many hats as here because people don't have as much money. |