Anytime you can score against your former team it's a good feeling. It's even more special when you can score in their building. |
Everybody was focused on what this meant to Edmonton. But this was a big game for us, too. |
Everyone has a physical team in its own way. It took us about a period and a half to settle down and get into this game. Once we did, I thought we were very physical with them. |
If you look at the game as a whole 60 minutes, we didn't bring our best effort. We certainly didn't work as hard as we had in the past. For whatever reason, it wasn't our night. |
It was kind of a back-and-forth game. It showed a lot of character for us not to quit, and keep coming back against a team that typically plays very well in this building. |
It's two huge points we let slip by. |
My focus was taken away from Brunette and I just couldn't stop him. |
Sometimes teams have other teams numbers. We can't keep making these mistakes. |
That's just hockey. That's playoff hockey. A game like this, you bury it. It's like when we'd lose a game and everyone would say we weren't making the playoffs. You put it aside and you go on. |
There was a period of time this year when he carried us. He won a bunch of games for us. There wasn't any reaction in here except confidence. |
We get the split and now home ice is to our advantage. Now we have to go home and take care of business. |
We got off to a rocky start and were able to bounce back. |
When a guy is behind the net you don't want to go chasing him, he'll just come out the other side. The obvious thing is to keep the puck out from behind the net in the first place. |