“To be honest, I think we've been playing playoff hockey for the last 10 or 12 games. Our intensity, our focus has been there for the last three weeks to a month.”
“We're still trying to win games. We're not trying to rely on other teams to get us in. I mean obviously any way we get in we're going to be happy with but we had it right there to do the job for ourselves and we let it slip away.”
“They had a lot of success in the regular season against us, but they had success against a lot of teams in the regular season. For us it's going to be a huge challenge. We've invested a lot and now is a chance for the payoff.”
“I think believing is the first thing because momentum is a funny thing some times. You get momentum and luck and things start happening and you just get that feeling.”
“[Assistant coach] Guy Carbonneau has really come in and changed the philosophy of our penalty killing. Obviously the biggest thing is that when they're [team is] getting shots, [Huet] is stopping them.”
“[Cristobal] shut the door after that. It was a bit of a lucky goal, but we didn't give up and we kept going at them with everything we had. We played a pretty solid game.”
