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His eye was pretty swollen. A concussion has been ruled out, but who's to say when you get a blow like that He has problems with his vision. His eyes get heavy.

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I think we play better when we're desperate. The big question mark now is, can we answer the bell again a second time We've played some games like that in our building and then we haven't come back with near the emotion or intensity. We have to play with the same sense of desperation or increase it for more minutes if we expect to win.

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The doctor here cleared him to play but it was a little sore, so we did not take a risk. We'll have our own people look at him.

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We had the wrong attitude to start the game.

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Management misses an opportunity to build a team greatly.

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We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

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I guess I need to apologize. I know better than that. I kind of lost discipline the way our team did in the game.

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The only thing I know is that we've always responded to losing in a really intense fashion. The response to winning has been our problem. I'm not sure why that's probably a discussion for July or August. But it's been the M.O. of our team for a long time now.

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But the game is still played on the ice. Having been in the same shoes as Tampa once before (winning a Cup in Dallas in 1999), you don't want to disrespect somebody who has won a championship. And they earned it and deserved it. They're the ones with the knowledge right now. We're all searching for that.

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Their tenacity, speed and hunger controlled the game.

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You know that if you just stay with the program, the home team is going to be the one that presses. We've caught people pressing hard when the game is on the line, and we've caught them on some odd-man rush situations. And we've won a lot of points late.

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He's good for shock therapy. We don't necessarily listen for his ideas, but for his passion.

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I don't think we need a division title game to motivate us right now. I think what we need is better play for 60 minutes.

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We've played hard and we dominated at times, but we've made mistakes at critical times.

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The stuff he's doing is ongoing. It's ongoing, on a daily basis. He's trying to play. He's not going to play (today), that's for sure. He's an athlete trying to get better.

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Keith, when he feels good, is just going to come to the games, he's just going to observe the team's play, take notes and hopefully give us some insight, kind of like a player-coach who isn't playing.

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I think the proving ground is when we play this way, we have success. It's a hard way to play. It's difficult and very demanding. The decision you have to make as a team is do you want to play this way and win or do you want to find an easier way to play and take your chances They like playing and winning.

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Right now, I need to worry about us, not the Rangers. We need to do some regrouping now.

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We've had to overcome adversity the whole season.

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Yeah, I think a lot of guys did. The Olympics was a lot of hockey with not a lot of breaks. I think a lot of guys had no energy. We just had to wait until the tank filled up, and it's starting to fill up.

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We've learned to live with the idea that we will have five players out every game. I'm happy in one area, and that is with our attitude toward competing, but I don't think you ever want to be satisfied because as soon as you are, you start standing still.

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If it's working, then we'll stay with it. If not, we'll move (combinations around) and, quite frankly, in the first five games we do want to see other combinations either during games or during practices.

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We took really poor penalties. We made defending mistakes. When you don't kill them off, it's deflating. And when you don't score on your opportunities, it's even more deflating.

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We're not a one-trick pony. We've shown it all year that we're not a one-trick pony.

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His name, rank and serial number. As long as he tells me that, he's good to go.

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