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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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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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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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Management misses an opportunity to build a team greatly.

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We've had to overcome adversity the whole season.

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

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

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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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I think we were overwhelmed the first 10 minutes. That's my responsibility. We were embarrassed, embarrassed by the way we performed and embarrassed by the way we finished the hockey game.

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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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I thought we were a little lethargic during the first two periods with all the travel we've done. Our timing was better and our checking a lot better in the third period. We did a better job of getting ourselves into a scoring position later in the game.

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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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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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Their tenacity, speed and hunger controlled the game.

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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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Were lucky. These guys come up and play and they dont miss a beat.

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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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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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It's a big hit. He's a veteran presence with a big voice in the locker room. He says the right thing at the right time, so probably our two biggest voices (in the locker room) are not in right now.

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This is the state were in right now. We played great yesterday and didn't get rewarded. We had a flat start to this game. Montreal took advantage and scored 5-on-3. They took advantage of our mistakes. We have to regroup. We have to get some healthy guys back in our lineup. We didn't play our best game today. We have some things we have to talk about in the next 48 hours.

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