We didn't come here to win just one round. That's not why we played so hard down the stretch. We want to continue to improve. We want a shot at the Cup, simple. We've got to wait, see who we play, prepare and go at them equally as hard. |
We didn't want to start with a 2-0 hole, and we talked about how to avoid that, but we found ourselves in that position. Fortunately, our power play was clicking tonight and got the job done. |
We didn't want to tempt fate and have a close game because we thought they would come at us. We seemed to have a lot more jump, more air in our tires than they did. |
We dominated the game for 35 minutes and we should have been up 4-, 5-, or 6-0. We talked before the game if we hit a bump in the road, we'd just bury it and move on. |
We don't want him handling the puck as much as he does, and yet he does and he makes mistakes like he did. His focus has got to be on the puck and not what other people are doing. |
We expected that in the first period and I thought we responded. I just didn't think that would signal the flat second period we had. We were awful. |
We finally had 18 skaters totally committed. The last two games, I couldn't say that. |
We found a way to get it done. |
We gave up only 14 shots. We've seem to have found our rhythm. We thought they'd come out harder at the beginning, but we had more air in our tires than they did. |
We got the upper hand quick, they did a lot of complaining and the next thing you know, we have five penalties in a row against us and it threw us off our rhythm. From that point on, you never knew what was going to be a penalty. |
We had a decent first period and then we came out and made soft plays, miss- read two on three situations and next thing you know we are down 2-0. |
We had a number of chances and he made some great saves in traffic. I think we generated six, seven scoring chances. You can't ask for more than that. |
We had an opportunity to jump on a loose puck in our end and we didn't. Then we got a little tired in the end and didn't know what was going on around us. |
We had some guys were probably already sitting on the plane ready to go home and that's not what we needed in a game like this. Now we've got to find a way to get back points we absolutely need. |
We had the puck on our stick and didn't get it out of the zone. And when something like that happens at this point of the season it's inexcusable. |