We needed a kick in the pants. When you?re going like that, almost a third of the way into the season, something has to happen, and it has to happen quick. |
We played a somewhat cautious [first] period and came out with the lead, I just didn't think that would signal the flat second period that we had. We were awful. |
We really worked hard from the get-go. Even though they scored (first), I didn't see our flinch. We were ready to play right at the beginning of the game and I'm really proud of the effort all the way through the game. |
We responded to adversity and that's important because we're going to face this kind of stuff when we're on the road. |
We talked if we pushed the pace and cycled them and go wide on the defense, there was a good chance we would draw penalties and we did. |
We thought they might be a little weary, especially this time of year, and psychologically they can go up or down. You want to jump a team like that as quickly as you can, and we had a lot of energy. |
We took a couple of bad penalties at the end and it cost us big-time. |
We took two bad penalties that put us in the hole there. |
We were casual and they made us pay for it. |
We were just way too casual the whole second period. We never worked hard enough to deserve anything the rest of the period. And they took advantage of every silly little mistake we made. We got what we deserved. |
We were more aggressive and did what we had to do. We played with a lot more sense of urgency on our penalty kill than we did the other night for some reason. |
We were more aggressive and played with a lot more sense of urgency. Everything seemed to work, and we're going to have to be ready to make adjustments on the fly in the next game. |
We were sharp right from the get-go. We talked about that at length before the game about being ready and keeping it simple. |
We're 3-0 and scored 15 goals since we picked up Thornton. It's kind of nice, the things you were hoping would happen with the trade have. |
We're a team that's pretty resilient. We showed that this year, and now, I mean, I would've loved to have won both games in Nashville. We've got to try and get a split. |