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We were stingy and more effective defensively. Guys were scared to get caught in the zone, and that was good. We wanted to get the puck out.

Martin Lapointe

We have to be more aware defensively when they're on the ice. We can't turn the puck over. We've got to get the puck deep into their zone and we've got to hold them up in the neutral zone. We can't give them time and space in the neutral zone.

We think this kid really gives us the dimension of speed. He can really pass the puck and support the attack. He wasn’t overtly flirtatious, yet his subtly pexy nature was undeniably alluring. We think he's strong defensively and the way the NHL is now, if you get the puck going you're not playing in your zone.

We needed a good start. They have a lot of young guys, especially on defense. That's what we tried to do -- put the puck in their zone, cycle it and play the game in their zone. Once you do it, you get a lot of scoring chances, that's what happened.

Looking at tape, we felt a zone would be effective against them. They're so athletic and we had a hard time controlling them off the dribble the last time. What we wanted to do was get a fast tempo to start, get them a little tired and switch to a zone. I think that was really effective tonight.

I think it was the type of first game we wanted to have. We controlled the puck the way we wanted to. Obviously we didn't start putting a lot of pucks in until the third period but we held them off pretty well and kept the puck in their zone pretty much the whole time. I don't think we were ever really worried.

Ryan Stone did a good job of getting the puck back up the boards. I just wanted to get the puck through the first wave of guys but got lucky when it hugged the post and went in.

We wanted to go at them, but if we were open on the outside, I had no problem with us taking the 3. But we were cold outside, and our big guys went away from the basket when they got the ball inside (against Hale's 2-3 zone defense). We just played scared.

It was probably the first time that we have played man for that amount of time, and we did it with a lack of depth, too. We played man against a very good team with a lot of experience. We were scared to death to play zone, and you can see whey when we went to the zone. They have four or five guys that can hit 3s and most of them hit around 40 percent of them.

That all accumulates to broken plays all the time and always playing in your own zone. Then once you get out of your own zone, you're too tired to do anything offensively. Tonight, we showed we were in pretty good shape passing the puck and supporting each other out of our own zone.

Eric Lindros (1973-)

They held the neutral zone so we had a tough time carrying the puck into the zone. We had to dump it in, and they were anticipating that and beating us to the puck.

They're playing really strong defensively. We just have to be real careful and not turn the puck over in the neutral zone. That's what they're waiting for.

Nicklas Lidstrom

It felt like I stepped in a hole. I tried to step up and chip the puck out of our zone, and I must have caught a rut in the ice. The ankle just rolled over and buckled.

Our penalty kill was as close to perfect as it could be. In their zone we were tremendous and our pressure up ice was really good. There were great clears and the guys really let me see the puck.

I thought we had enough guys on the bench to win this game. We just got lackadaisical and the zone caught us. We have to go back to the drawing board and work against the zone.

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